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Year End, Purging Student U Drives

As we approach the end of another school year, it is important for all students to know that ALL files and folders in their network storage drive, otherwise know as the U Drive , will be purged or deleted during summer maintenance . What does this specifically mean for students? If you need to keep any of your files from this school year, you will need to move them into your Google Drive or another service of your choosing. Any students leaving the district (Congratulations, Seniors!) will have to move their files into another storage location outside of the Portage Public Schools Network and their @portageps.org Google Account. There are several methods for making this move; however, we recommend either of the following methods below. Moving U Drive Files to your PPS Google Drive Account If you will be at PPS next year, this is the one for you! Login to a student computer with your Portage username and password Open Windows Explorer or My Computer to go to your...

Network Drives: Handouts for How to Access your U Drive from home

If you want to print out the instructions on how to access your U drive from home please use the following links.  Thanks to Joshua Enos for the initial tech tip! Easiest Way - Accessing without downloading anything on your home computer More Steps, but better user experience - Accessing by downloading and installing the software on your computer.

Network Drives: Accessing your U drive from home

Go to www.portageps.org and click Faculty and Staff, then the VMWare Virtual Desktop button. Click on the image labeled VMWare Horizon View HTML Access You will be prompted to enter your PortagePS credentials (you do not need to add the @portageps.org here). Click Log In. You will be prompted to choose a desktop configuration. Click on Staff Floating (Windows 7). You will see a swirling status icon. Wait for this, and the loading of the rest of the virtual desktop, and you will be rewarded with a Windows 7 desktop running inside of your browser window. Performance of this virtual desktop is directly related to the speed of your internet connection, and the speed of your home computer. If you want files out of your U drive to work on at home, the best option right now is to email the file(s) to yourself or upload them to Google Drive. If you are a fairly tech savvy person, you could also download the client onto your home computer. For instructions on how to do this, click here . ...