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New Microsoft 365 Storage Limits (March 31, 2025)

lukegag2 — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 13:55:58 +0000

Effective Monday, March 31, Microsoft is implementing a storage limit for Microsoft 365 across OneDrive, SharePoint and Exchange email for all educational institutions, including 91��ɫ. This means that faculty, staff and students will have limits on the amount of space available for storing files and information.

New storage limits for faculty and staff 

OneDrive: 200 GB 
Teams/SharePoint: 1 TB per site 
Exchange/Outlook: No change to existing quotas, but a new archiving policy will automatically move emails over two years old to an archive mailbox.

Email Archiving Feature

The new archiving policy will help manage your email storage by automatically moving emails older than two years to an archive mailbox. Archive mailboxes do not count towards your storage quota and are easily accessible on Windows, Mac, and Outlook Web Access (OWA). This means you can keep your older emails without worrying about them taking up your primary storage space. For more information on accessing your email online archive mailboxes, please refer to the following link from Microsoft Support. . .

New storage limits for students

OneDrive: 50 GB

Teams/SharePoint: 1 TB per site
Exchange: /Outlook: No change to the existing email storage quota.

Next steps

Most people will be unaffected by this change. Nonetheless, you are encouraged to review your storage to understand how much you are using and delete or archive files no longer in use (see link below for more details). Anyone who is over the quota will be contacted directly.

Once the new limits are in place, the system will send a warning notice to anyone who is using 90 per cent of their storage capacity and a second warning when their storage is full. Anyone who exceeds their storage capacity (OneDrive, Teams and Outlook) will not be able to add new files until they have removed or deleted content.

What if I need more storage?

We understand this transition may be challenging. Additional paid storage options are available for users with higher storage needs.

Provider	500 GB (Standard)	1 TB (Medium)	2 TB (Large)	5 TB (Extra Large)
YU M365 (Microsoft)	$250	$500	$1,000	$2,500

Note: these are annual prices with a minimum one-year commitment.

Learn more

Learn how to manage your OneDrive storage through this helpful guide: Managing Your OneDrive Storage.

Contact

Please direct any questions or concerns to USC Client Services at askit@yorku.ca or 416 736 5800.

PDF-XChange Pro on MyApps, February 18, 2021

rodp — Thu, 18 Feb 2021 20:37:28 +0000

UIT Bulletin

Please share this information with your teams. We have updated PDF-XChange Pro on MyApps from v8 to the latest vendor release v9. The user manual is available at . For all communities that fall under UIT managed support, the desktop version on computers running Windows will automatically be updated to v9 in the coming week.

Thank you for your continued cooperation and support.

Please direct any questions or concerns to UIT Client Services.

Email: askit@yorku.ca
Self Serve Portal:

Thank you,
University Information Technology

MyApps - service compatibility for Macs with Apple silicon, January 18, 2021

cyoung12 — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 16:41:26 +0000

UIT Bulletin

Please share this information with your teams. We are informing the community that Apple introduced devices with a new chipset as of late 2020.

If you have one of these models, you are required to enable "Rosetta" to launch applications from MyApps,

For further assistance, please read the following article from Apple:

Thank you for your continued cooperation and support.

Please direct any questions or concerns to UIT Client Services.

Email: askit@yorku.ca
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Thank you,
University Information Technology

MyApps and Mac OS 11 "Big Sur", Friday, January 8, 2021

cyoung12 — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 21:02:39 +0000

UIT Bulletin

Please share this information with your teams. MyApps is now compatible with Mac OS 11 “Big Sur”. You may need to “Refresh” or “Reload this page” if you get an error with your web browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari).

Thank you for your continued cooperation and support.

Please direct any questions or concerns to UIT Client Services.

Email: askit@yorku.ca
Self Serve Portal:

Thank you,
University Information Technology

Central Software License Management – E SRI ArcGIS Desktop, December 17, 2020

cyoung12 — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 16:44:07 +0000

UIT Bulletin

The central software license manager has been updated to service ESRI ArcGIS Desktop Advanced, concurrent licenses, versions 10.1 – 10.8.1 and to expire November 18, 2021.

The following extensions are enabled:

ArcGIS 3D Analyst for Desktop

ArcGIS Aviation Airports for Desktop

ArcGIS Data Interoperability for Desktop

ArcGIS Data Reviewer for Desktop

ArcGIS for Aviation: Charting

ArcGIS for Maritime: Bathymetry

ArcGIS for Maritime: Charting

ArcGIS Geostatistical Analyst Desktop

ArcGIS LocateXT for Desktop Concurrent

ArcGIS Network Analyst for Desktop

ArcGIS Pipeline Referencing for Desktop

ArcGIS Pro Advanced

ArcGIS Production Mapping

ArcGIS Publisher for Desktop

ArcGIS Roads and Highways

ArcGIS Schematics for Desktop

ArcGIS Spatial Analyst for Desktop

ArcGIS Tracking Analyst for Desktop

Esri Defense Mapping

Workflow Manager

Thank you for your continued cooperation and support.

Please direct any questions or concerns to UIT Client Services.

Email: askit@yorku.ca
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University Information Technology

Administrative Templates (.admx) for Windows 10 October 2020 Update (20H2)

cyoung12 — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 14:25:39 +0000

UIT Bulletin

Group Policy tools use Administrative template files to populate policy settings in the user interface. This allows administrators to manage registry-based policy settings.

We are informing our Faculty IT partners that we have updated the central Active Directory administrative template earlier this morning, to provide support for Windows 10 October 2020 Update (20H2).

We have shared additional documentation on the "Device Management > AD" Teams channel for our Faculty IT partners to read:

New settings in Windows 10 20H2

MS Security Baseline Windows 10 20H2 (DRAFT release)

UIT will continue with 20H1 as its standard Windows 10 build.

Thank you for your continued cooperation and support.

Please direct any questions or concerns to UIT Client Services.

Email: askit@yorku.ca
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University Information Technology

Availability of Microsoft Windows 10 October 2020 Update (20H2)

cyoung12 — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 14:17:06 +0000

UIT Bulletin

We have posted the latest Microsoft Windows 10 ISO’s to our distribution share on \\vfadmin.yorku.yorku.ca\UIT-SOFT\distrib\microsoft

Windows 10 October 2020 Update (20H2)

UIT has not completed any compatibility validation to support Windows 10 20H2. We strongly advise caution to deploy it widely. UIT will continue with 20H1 as its standard Windows 10 build.

We will provide additional updates to our Faculty IT partners as we progress to provide central support for 20H2.

Thank you for your continued cooperation and support.

Please direct any questions or concerns to UIT Client Services.

Email: askit@yorku.ca
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Thank you,
University Information Technology

Upcoming release of Mac OS 11 "Big Sur" on November 12, 2020

cyoung12 — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 18:58:58 +0000

UIT Bulletin

Please share this information with your teams. Apple has announced its next major Mac OS 11 “Big Sur” to be available tomorrow, November 12, 2020. UIT strongly advises caution to upgrading to Mac OS 11 “Big Sur” as there are known incompatibilities with various services and products, such as MyApps and Trend Micro anti-virus. We will provide further updates when these vendors plan to release new versions to be compatible with Mac OS 11 “Big Sur”.

Thank you for your continued cooperation and support.

Please direct any questions or concerns to UIT Client Services.

Email: askit@yorku.ca
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Thank you,
University Information Technology

Central Software License Management – MATLAB

cyoung12 — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 16:26:37 +0000

UIT Bulletin

Please share this information with your teams. The central software license manager has been updated to service MATLAB concurrent licenses up to version R2020b.

There is no change to our license expiration, concurrent licenses are valid until September 30, 2021.

Thank you for your continued cooperation and support.

Please direct any questions or concerns to UIT Client Services.

Email: askit@yorku.ca
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Thank you,
University Information Technology

Deep Freeze Enterprise, October 7, 2020

cyoung12 — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 15:43:24 +0000

UIT Bulletin

If you have purchased Deep Freeze Enterprise licenses, you can download a copy of the latest vendor release from

\\vfadmin.yorku.yorku.ca\UIT-SOFT\distrib\faronics\server\

For more information on the latest vendor release, please visit

Thank you for your continued cooperation and support.

Please direct any questions or concerns to UIT Client Services.

Email: askit@yorku.ca
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University Information Technology