Win 11 and Win 10  Mapped Drives for Staff  
Map a drive to staff share drive: 
Windows 11 (example with shared T drive mapping) 
  1. Connect to FortiClient (the BU vpn – virtual private network) 
  2. Open File Explorer
  3. On the left-hand side of the screen scroll down and click once on "This PC", then  click on “...” towards the top of the screen (it is a tab to the right of “View”)
  4. Select “Map Network Drive"
  5. Under Drive, choose a drive letter from the list at the bottom of these instructions  (example: select T: if you are looking to access department shared drives)
  6. Under folder, type \\bu-ad.brandonu.ca\Staff\shared 
  7. Select Connect using different credentials
  8. Click Finish 
  9. For the username type:  bu-ad\'username'    (replace ‘username’ with your BU login account)
  10. For the password type your BU password 
  11. Click OK, and the drive should connect and be listed 

Listing of Different paths that can be mapped 
* If you are looking to access another directory other than the T: drive, please use the following drive letters and folder location path as indicated in the steps above
M Drive – more of a legacy drive, not required for most users anymore 
\\bu-ad.brandonu.ca\Staff\Apps 


N Drive - Staff Home Directories (phasing out - recommendation is OneDrive)

\\bu-ad.brandonu.ca\Staff\Home\'username'



Windows 10 (example with shared drive mapping) 

  1. Connect to FortiClient (the BU vpn – virtual private network) 
  2. Click in the search field towards the bottom left hand side of the screen (the search field shows "Type here to search)
  3. Type “This PC” in the search field then click on “This PC”
  4. In the next window, click on “Computer” towards the top of the screen (it is a tab between “File” and “View”)
  5. Click “Map Network Drive", and “Map Network Drive” again 

  7. Under Drive, choose a drive letter from the list at the bottom of these instructions  (example; select T: if you are looking to access your personal home directory)* 
  8. Under folder, type \\bu-ad.brandonu.ca\Staff\shared  
  9. Select Connect using different credentials
  10. Click Finish 
  11. For the username type:  bu-ad\'username'    
  12. For the password type your BU password 
  13. Click OK, and your drive should connect and be listed 

Listing of Different paths that can be mapped 

* If you are looking to access another directory other than the T: drive, please use the following drive letters and folder location path as indicated in the steps above


N Drive - Staff Home Directories (phasing out - recommendation is OneDrive)

\\bu-ad.brandonu.ca\Staff\Home\'username'


M Drive – more of a legacy drive, not required for most users anymore 

\\bu-ad.brandonu.ca\Staff\Apps