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How to Add and Delete Shares to Your Department’s MESA Drive

Note: You must be your Department's Technical Point of Contact in order to complete this process.

Step 1

Open a web browser and navigate to tools.mesa.gmu.edu. Log in with your Patriot Pass credentials.

Step 2

Select Manage Shares from the left-hand menu.

Step 3

Select the department for which you would like to add or delete a share.

Add a Share

Once you log in to tools.mesa.gmu.edu, you will be able to see if you have the ability to add shares for your department.

Step 1

Select the link to Add.

Step 2

Complete the form.

  • If you would like, provide a brief description of the share.
  • Ignore the box asking about sensitive and/or restricted data.
  • Name your share.
  • Give it a quota, the default is 1 GB.
  • Provide two users who will be the Share Administrators.  These people will be responsible for adding and removing users from the share and auditing the share once per year.
  • Select Create Share.

Your new share is now created.

Delete a Share

You can delete a share if you do not need it anymore.

WARNING: Clicking on Delete Share will permanently delete the share and all its contents.

Step 1

Select the share that you would like to delete.

 

Step 2

You will see a warning that you are about to permanently delete the share.

WARNING: Clicking on Delete Share will permanently delete the share and its contents. Please make backup copies of necessary files.

Step 3

If you are sure that you want to continue, check the two boxes and select Delete Share.

Your share is now deleted.

Last modified: September 20, 2018

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