Microsoft Access for Alumni

Microsoft recently announced significant changes to its educational licensing impacting all Office 365 A1 Plus licenses as communicated in a June 6, 2024 email to alumni.
 
Microsoft will discontinue alumni access to the Office applications on August 1, 2024. A licence must be purchased from Microsoft or one of its resellers in order to continue using Microsoft Office. 
 
If you want to preserve data you have stored in OneDrive, please migrate your files elsewhere before the August 1, 2024 expiration date. Data cannot be recovered once your account expires.
 
Instructions on migrating your files from OneDrive may be found below. 

Accessing Brandeis University Microsoft Data


In order to access and download data stored in OneDrive in your Brandeis University account:

  1. In a web browser, navigate to https://www.office.com
  2. Press the “Sign in” button, located in the middle of the page and in the upper right
    corner.
  3. At the Sign in prompt, enter your Brandeis email address and press “Next”:

    image is of the microsoft sign in prompt

  4. You will then be brought to a page with Brandeis University branding. Enter your
    Brandeis Single Sign-On password, which is the same password that you use for other
    Brandeis services:

image is of Brandeis single sign-on

 5. After completing sign-in, you will be brought to the Microsoft 365 home page. To access and download data you have stored in OneDrive, click the app launcher in the upper left corner:

image is of how to click the app launcher in the upper left corner

6. From the Apps list, select “OneDrive”:

image is of the apps list7. On the main screen of the OneDrive web application, select “My Files”:

image is of the screen of the OneDrive

8. Select all of your files by selecting the checkbox next to the “Name” column in the list of files. Alternatively, select only the files/folders that you would like to keep. Then, select“Download”:

image is of how to download the files you want to keep.

9. This will download a .zip file containing your OneDrive files.

Contact

If you have any questions regarding this process, please reach out to MS-alumnihelp@brandeis.edu.