Cloud Fundamentals

Cloud Fundamentals
One Drive
When we create an Outlook account with Microsoft
it includes access to Office 365. Office 365 is like
Google Drive. Microsoft calls their online storage,
OneDrive. OneDrive provides 15 Gigabytes of free
storage with your account. You have the option
to purchase more. You also have the option to
subscribe to Office 365, which includes the Office
products and 1 terabyte of online storage.
Let’s create our free account. Go over to
outlook.com and let’s create an account. Click on
the sign up now link below the sign in button.
OneDrive works on any browser but to get the
best experience you should use Internet Explorer
on Windows computers and Firefox on Apple
computers.
Let’s go over to OneDrive. Click on the Microsoft
Apps launcher in the upper left corner of the page.
This looks very similar to Google’s App launcher.
A panel will open with several app buttons. Click on
the OneDrive button.
Microsoft allows you to use an existing email
account for your Outlook and OneDrive account.
This option is nice because you don’t have to create
another email account. In this example we’ll create
a new email account. To create a new account, click
the get a new email address link.
When creating the email for this account, keep in
mind the suggestion I made earlier. Fill in all the
information and click the create account button at
the bottom of the page.
The account will be created and you’ll be taken to
your Outlook email account. You’ll be presented
with a welcome page and the option to watch
a short information presentation. Watch the
presentation and click the continue to inbox button
when done.
OneDrive will open and a welcome section
will display on the page. There is a short video
presentation you can watch. There is also an
interactive three step introduction. In the three
step introduction Microsoft offers you an additional
15 Gigabytes if you download their app and sync
your photos. In the introduction you learn about
the OneDrive app available for your computer
and devices to sync files. Finally you are given the
opportunity to invite friends to join Outlook and
Office 365. In return you will get an additional 500
MB per friend that joins. Click the close button
when you are done with the welcome information.
OneDrive automatically includes three folders
in your cloud storage. These include folders for
documents, music and pictures. Let’s upload some
files to this account. Click the documents folder,
this will open the folder. Microsoft calls each of
these boxes a Tile. I’ll call them folders just because
it makes more sense to me.
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Digital Maestro