Going to the Cloud with Onedrive
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Think of OneDrive always in 2 parts:
– Consumer vs Business based storage
– Web vs Local storage
I will therefore categorize as:
– OneDrive Consumer
– OneDrive for Business
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www.onedrive.com
Requires Microsoft account for access
– What is a Microsoft account?
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-live/sign-in-
what-is-microsoft-account
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Cloud Storage = 7GB free
Purchase additional 200GB
Maximum file size = 2GB
‘Smart files’ with Windows 8.1
Includes Office Online to view and edit
Office documents
Comparisons -
https://onedrive.live.com/about/en-au/compare/
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Free versions for Windows, MAC, iOS,
Android
Local program to allow easy access to
OneDrive Consumer
Provides background sync of files to
cloud on PC systems
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Part of SharePoint Server 2013
– On premises
– Office 365
Office 365 = 25GB per user
– Designed as replacement for personal
drives
– Can be scaled to 1,024GB per user
– Versioning automatically enabled
Basically a personal document library
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Includes Office Online for viewing and
editing Office documents
Can use OneDrive consumer and
OneDrive for Business on same
desktop
A standalone plan will be available
from April 1
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Free versions for Windows, MAC, iOS, Android
Local program to allow easy access to
OneDrive for Business
Provides background sync of files to cloud on
PC systems
Can sync any SharePoint 2013 document
library to local machine
Only delta changes for Excel, Word and
PowerPoint are sync’ed
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2GB per file size limit
Sync limits:
– 20,000 items in OneDrive for Business
library including files and folders
– 5,000 items in site libraries, including files
and folders
– Certain file type are blocked
– 5 million items within a document library
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OneDrive is about storage
OneDrive consumer is free
OneDrive for Business is part of
SharePoint 2013
Both can sync to a Windows desktop
- 26. SharePoint Online blocked file types - http://office.microsoft.com/en-
au/office365-sharepoint-online-small-business-help/types-of-files-
that-cannot-be-added-to-a-list-or-library-
HA101907868.aspx#_Toc355959797
Smart files in Windows 8.1 - http://blog.onedrive.com/have-all-your-
skydrive-files-with-you-without-using-all-your-storage-or-bandwidth/
SkyDrive Pro increases storage and ease of sharing -
http://blogs.office.com/2013/08/27/skydrive-pro-increases-storage-
and-ease-of-sharing/
Solve Problems you are having with OneDrive for Business sync app
- http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/office365-sharepoint-online-
enterprise-help/solve-problems-youre-having-with-the-onedrive-for-
business-sync-app-HA104047973.aspx
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