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:
- In a web browser, navigate to https://www.office.com
- Press the “Sign in” button, located in the middle of the page and in the upper right
corner. - At the Sign in prompt, enter your Brandeis email address and press “Next”:
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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:
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:
6. From the Apps list, select “OneDrive”:
7. On the main screen of the OneDrive web application, select “My Files”:
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”:
9. This will download a .zip file containing your OneDrive files.