Update on home drives phase-out 22 August 2025

22 August 2025

All departments have now had the OneDrive sync app installed and colleagues in digital services have had their home drives made read-only, marking the beginning of the shift from home drives to OneDrive. Corporate services and transformation (CST) will be next, with their home drives being made read-only on 1 September 2025.

I'm in CST, what happens next?

From 1 September 2025 you will be able to open files in your home drive and copy your files and folders (to paste them into your OneDrive), but you will not be able to make any changes, save any edits, or create new files and folders in your home drive.

All you need to do is review what you currently store in your home drive and copy work-related files to OneDrive where more appropriate storage locations are not available (such as EDRM).

One month after, on 6 October 2025, your home drive will no longer be available, so you need to make sure you move everything you want to keep before then.

I'm in adult social care and health, children's services or place – what happens next?

Your home drives will be made read-only later in the year, but if you want to get started moving your files to OneDrive now, you can!

Anything else?

This move only relates to your home drive – that's the one with your payroll number displayed. No shared drives, EDRM files, or anything outside of that folder are affected.

Find out more about what this means for you and what you need to do.

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