What are the standard drive letters?

Our file servers have data shares and in many cases the data shares are assigned drive letters for easier access by you. Not everyone has the same exact drive letters, as some are department-specific, but most everyone has these standard drive letters:

The "P:" Drive. While this drive has been deprecated (no new projects have been created on this drive since 2021), this drive was used for all project related documents. It is organized by project number and typically follows a pretty specific folder structure.

The "S:" Drive. This is often referred to simply as "the Share drive" and is used for sharing documents that are not project specific. This is a repository of documents that can be shared with multiple people but are not necessarily project related. “S:\Master Forms” is a common folder where you can find templates for various forms. It is often used when someone outside of a department would like to collaborate on files or folders in another department's drive. For example, rather than giving Bob Builder (a Project Engineer) access to a specific folder on the PPG/Estimating drive, someone from the PPG team could copy the file Bob needs to a folder on the S: drive so he can access/collaborate on it, and it can be moved back to PPG's drive when done.

Different companies have their own S: drive, so CCI's S: drive would have different data and folders than Christman's.

The "H:" Drive. Another largely deprecated drive, this "home" drive was used for private storage. Here users could store company related documents organized however they like.  This is a place where you have access but is not shared with anyone else. This is not for non-work-related personal files. 

Since our move to Microsoft 365, this has largely been replaced with your local Desktop and Documents folders on your computer, which are backed up to 365 using Microsoft OneDrive. We no longer set up an H: drive for new users.