Remote Resources and Working From Home

We have a variety of services and tools available to you to facilitate working at home and accessing resources remotely. This article serves as a landing point to link out to our various articles on these services and tools.

• Email: You can access your email offsite using a variety of methods.
• Webmail: Access to webmail instructions are available here.
• Devices: Instructions on how to add Michener Email to your mobile device or Outlook on your desktop are available here.

• Document Storage
• OneDrive: You are entitled to 1TB of personal document storage via OneDrive. Instructions on how to access OneDrive are available here.
• SharePoint: If your department has a SharePoint site already created, please utilize it for collaborating on documents. If you would like to request a SharePoint site to be created for you, please email helpdesk@michener.ca to open a ticket.

• Communication & Meeting Tools
• Teams: Teams is great for chatting with your teammates and other St. Patrick Campus co-workers.
• Great for collaborating on documents, and can also be used for meetings.
• Teams is available for Windows, macOS, iOS and Android, so you can always stay in touch. Please download Teams here.
• We recommend that you utilize Teams for internal Michener meetings instead of Zoom.
• Instructions on basic Teams usage are available here.
• Zoom: Zoom is great for remote meetings for educational purposes, such as remote classes.
• You can meet with up to 300 attendees and one presenter, for a total of 301 total participants.
• It also includes key meeting features such as a phone number to allow those without a headset or smartphone to call in using a traditional phone.
• If you would like a Zoom account, please contact the Helpdesk by emailing helpdesk@michener.ca.
• Zoom is approved for education meetings only.
• Please avoid using Mitel Conferencing if possible, we have very limited capacity on this service and utilizing it ties up our available phone lines.

• Remote Desktop:
• Can be utilized to access your fileshares such as the Y: Drive and P: Drive but please exhaust all the options above as we have limited bandwidth for this service.
• More detailed instructions on appropriate use of Remote Desktop are available here.
• Instructions on how to access Remote Desktop are available here.

• Microsoft Office: All Staff & Faculty are entitled to Microsoft Office.
• You can have up to five installations of Microsoft Office for macOS or Windows on computers or mobile devices.
• Instructions on how to download and activate Office are available here.