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Many users have taken advantage of “anonymous links” in BuckeyeBox for content that is suitable to be shared widely. Enabling this capability in OneDrive and Teams has been under security review, and we have determined we can manage the risk to enable users to continue using anonymous links when we copy your BuckeyeBox content into OneDrive.

Starting Monday, Dec. 28, you will be able to create anonymous sharing links (aka “anyone links” or “public links”) in OneDrive and Teams. Anonymous links enables anyone with the link to view a document.

After stuffing your belly with turkey over the holidays, fill your mind with Teams and OneDrive knowledge before winter break. We have three useful seminars lined up in December.

File Management in OneDrive for Business (60 minutes)

This session is for users already familiar with the MS OneDrive interface, logging on process and are interested in learning more about file and folder management in OneDrive for Business. Due to time constraints, we will only take only questions pertaining to files and their use in OneDrive.

We are continuing our Office 365 journey, which ensures everyone at Ohio State can collaborate on a wide variety of devices, while keeping your information and Ohio State data secure. On Tuesday, Nov. 17, we will enable some new security settings on Microsoft mobile applications. These settings will affect employees only and student employees with “name.#s@osu.edu” email accounts; all other student accounts will be unaffected.

If you are using an older email client or web browser you may have to update it before this Thursday, Oct. 15. Microsoft is no longer supporting older web browsers or email clients because of security vulnerabilities.

Making this change may sound technical, but it may not affect you if you are using updated software. If it does affect you, do not hesitate to get help making an update.

We know that the following clients will be affected:

Chief Information Security Officer Helen Patton was recently asked to join the Educause Policy Advisory Committee, giving Ohio State a more active voice in advising Educause’s policy activities. Her initial term will be a two year commitment.

EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association that helps higher education elevate the impact of IT. The committee includes senior leaders who can inject a broad, strategic perspective into policy and government relations activities as well as member representatives for whom policy issues are more central to their institutional role.