OneDrive for Business is covered by a license agreement with Microsoft that allows NUS to maintain ownership of the documents stored in OneDrive for Business. NUS does not have these agreements with any other cloud document storage companies.

The usage of OneDrive for Business is covered under a license with Microsoft. OneDrive is consumer service provided and its usage is not covered under any contracts with NUS. NUS users should use OneDrive for Business accessible through Office 365 for NUS related documents. If you have a personal OneDrive account, it cannot be merged with your NUS OneDrive for Business account, but you can still use both separately.

You can create, upload, and share documents and folders with your colleagues. Based on the sharing permissions you grant them, they can then either view or edit those documents or create new documents. You can also edit them at the same time in the web browser.

Yes, OneDrive for Business will scan each document before uploading it to verify that it is not a known virus or malware distributer. Do still use caution if someone you do not know tries to send you a file or invites you to a folder using OneDrive for Business or any other file sharing program.

You cannot pick and choose files in your OneDrive for Business space to sync locally. It is all or nothing.

Notably *.tmp or *.ds_store extension, and desktop.ini thumbs.db or ethumbs.db file can’t be uploaded into OneDrive for business.

Folder named “forms” isn’t supported at the root level for a list or library. This occurs because “forms” is a hidden default folder that’s used to store templates and forms for the library.

The following listed characters are not supported when you sync OneDrive for Business with SharePoint online / * ? “ < > | # % . Additionally, a file or folder name that begins with a title (~) isn’t supported.

You can share and collaborate with your department through your personal OneDrive for Business account. Please be aware that if you depart NUS, your documents will be no longer be available to your department or the individuals that you’ve shared them with as they will be stored in your personal OneDrive for Business account, which will be disabled upon your departure.

Currently sync file size is up to 10 GB.

This is a folder created when your account was provisioned with OneDrive for Business. Any files or folders you place (or create) inside it will become available to ALL NUS faculty, staff, and students; they will ALL have EDIT privileges on the documents.

We recommend that you delete it to avoid unintentional oversharing.

You can download the OneDrive for Business sync client for Mac from the App Store.

Start OneDrive by pressing cmd+Space to launch a Spotlight query and type OneDrive. This starts OneDrive Setup.

Enter your NUS-ID and then select Sign in to set up your account.

• Windows 7 and later
• Mac OS X
• iOS
• Android
• Windows Phone

If you delete a file stored in OneDrive, it will be in your OneDrive recycle bin for 30 days. After that, it is gone. There is no back-up. You can restore the file from the OneDrive recycle bin within 30 days.

No, you can only share documents with NUS staff and students.