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OneDrive from Microsoft is a cloud storage and file syncing service.
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February 26, 2024
OneDrive Can be Your Friend
We use OneDrive to connect all of our files to our Sharepoint server. These files sync with each other. If OneDrive goes down or disconnects, we've lost files, so we depend on OneDrive to always be up and running, with no crashes or down time.
- Keeps our files in sync with the SharePoint server
- Keeps any personal files synced but remain password protected
- Easy to access from any web browser
- My OneDrive will disconnect itself after I do a hard reboot over the weekend
- My OneDrive will completely disappear from view randomly
- After a hard reboot, most often I'll have to go into my applications folder to find the OneDrive app, then open and wait for it to sign in and sync
May 25, 2022
Unlimited storage at best.
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User
We utilize Onedrive, which is part of the Microsoft 365 package, to fully back all of the personal data upon every user's computer and to share papers with customers online in a way that allows many people to work on a word or excel project at the same time. Providing each customer with a complimentary terabyte of storage is a great method to ensure that everyone else's personal data have always been safeguarded in the clouds.
- OneDrive allows sending the folders you designate.
- OneDrive makes it simple to share huge files with people without having to contact them.
- Multiple people can access the same files using OneDrive information in the cloud.
- Maintaining real-time coordination with all of my devices has proven tough.
- System restore would occasionally stop working for short periods of time.
- Occasionally, the font of the papers is changed.
February 25, 2022
Convenient in collaboration
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User
My organization uses OneDrive as a cloud sharing service, and it's a fresh new tool. Documents are shared for collaboration, work flows are shared for input, and HR tracking is shared. It's being utilized throughout the organization, and it's steadily gaining traction from different departments. Having a central location to store files that are only available to individuals you invite is beneficial.
- Allows users to simply access and navigate through the environment without the need for extensive training or hand-in labor.
- Fast cloud upload system.
- Auto syncing is incredible.
- Playback in cloud specially videos.
- Files not very organized.
June 02, 2021
A secure place to collaborate
It is incredibly helpful having your files in one place and in the cloud! This way you can access your files from multiple devices and trust that the files are being backed up and safe.
- Organizing
- Back up
- Mobile friendly
- I don’t like it that the account owner has all the access.
August 12, 2020
Controller
We used it across the organization, it solves the problem of having to saving things on the server and not being able to access it remotely.
- Easy to use
- Assimilate with Office 365 seamlessly
- Quick Download & Upload
- The ability to access information everywhere with WiFi and/or Data connections.
- Downloadable app on other platforms i.e. Mac OS.
- Reassurance of better security especially when accessing through Public Network.
February 18, 2020
Cloud Storage Solution for Microsoft Suite Users
We use OneDrive as our company's cloud file storage system. Every document that is to be saved to a hard drive, is also uploaded to OneDrive as an added protection. It allows us to retrieve files from anywhere we have internet access, share files with other employees and allows us to link to files from one central point.
- Drag and drop uploading is very easy to use.
- The ability to create folders to help organize files is nice.
- When uploading a new version of a file, with the same file name, OneDrive often looks as if it's beginning to upload the new version but then after a moment, freezes and prompts you to approve the overwrite. It's enough of a pause that you think you don't need to do anything and the file will upload, only to come back and find out that nothing has actually happened. It just takes too long to realize that it's the same file name.
- Moving a file from one destination in OneDrive to another (from one folder to another, for instance) is very clunky.
January 19, 2020
OneDrive: The modern filing system
We use OneDrive as our modern filing system. OneDrive allows our employees to access their files from anywhere on any device.
- Availability of files
- Shareability of files
- Syncing sometimes runs into issues.
January 10, 2020
Compatible with Microsoft, Weak as a Stand-Alone Option
Our entire organization uses OneDrive for email, document sharing, forms, etc. Staff, faculty, and students all use OneDrive for classes and collaboration. It enables us to share live documents and forms while staying within the university's Microsoft network. It enables instant connection and mobile application for constant information-sharing. Some departments and student groups use it more than others, but all employees are familiar with OneDrive and capable of using it.
- OneDrive is available online and on mobile platforms. The connection between the two enables employees who work beyond the traditional office setting to access important documents at all times.
- OneDrive syncs with the network users to automatically load contact information. Sharing is easy. Simply type in another employee or student name, and their email immediately pops up.
- OneDrive works on the mobile app, but updates made online are often slow to update on the app. I would like to see an instantaneous connection.
- Finding shared documents on OneDrive is a challenge, and I often find myself searching for documents and folders. A new organization system would increase its functionality.
OneDrive is currently (hopefully not permanently) my agency's document storage solution, used across the entire entity to collaborate and share files. My department (Research & Evaluation) has a large number of digital files that need storage, from workflow resources to form templates, feedback survey results, training documents, departmental position descriptions, and more.
- There is no regard in which OneDrive is superior to competitors on the market, other than being part of the Microsoft Office environment. Even this is negligible, however, as these apps often struggle to play nice (even with each other).
- First and foremost, the browser versions of this and all Microsoft software MUST be improved and caught up to speed with the desktop versions. which have greatly expanded functionality. It's 2019, there's no reason for this disparity to persist any longer.
- Sign-In is a major pain area for all of the software in the Microsoft Suite. It's impossible to navigate using browser back- and forward-buttons without being forced to sign in again, and navigating to the homepage for OneDrive takes you to a sales page instead of a sign-in (to get to your OneDrive Business sign-on page you are best served to navigate using a 3-click path from another tab already signed into OneDrive).
December 12, 2019
OneDrive is the best solution for the Microsoft users out there!
Our organization uses OneDrive as essentially a "Google Drive" for our company. For companies that use Microsoft and PCs, this is the easiest option as you don't have to log onto another platform or web browser to have the functions that typical drives provide you with - and you can work on documents easily without going onto an internet browser.
- Sharing documents
- Organization across the cloud
- Unable to work for Macs
- Mobile app
December 04, 2019
Best Cloud Storage/Collaboration Software
OneDrive is being utilized by the support areas of the department to share important information. It is more robust than a network drive in that files are not 'locked down' by a single user, there aren't multiple copied being emailed around, and access control is possible. It is also possible to share files/documents with users in other areas of the company easily.
- Shared files.
- Collaborative editing.
- Access control.
- Mobile access.
- Too many options for access.
- Unclear structure at times.
December 04, 2019
Adequate, But Not The Best
OneDrive is available to all students, faculty, and staff across my large state university. Within my department, we use OneDrive to share working files via email. Perhaps unnecessarily, our institution also provides unlimited storage via Box, which is the more dominantly used tool in most of our work. It seems to have fewer kinks than OneDrive for general file storing, sharing, and collaborative editing purposes.
- It's an easy way to share collaborative files via email.
- It's a quick place to access files remotely.
- The online version of O365 apps, such as Word/Excel/PowerPoint, have limited functionality in a browser. OneDrive allows editing via desktop app, but the autosave function is often gimmicky when used in this manner.
- It's simply not as smooth or intuitive as similar tools, such as Box and Dropbox.
November 26, 2019
OneDrive backup and collaboration
OneDrive is being used across my organization for user's backup. Users share OneDrive files and folders with other users inside or outside the company. It lets your company be more collaborative and productive.
- Good for sharing files and folders.
- Excellent for collaborative jobs or task.
- You can access to your files anywhere.
- You can install OneDrive app in your mobile device.
- You can edit the files online.
- OneDrive does not synchronize files with some length or special characters.
August 17, 2019
An Effective Product Overall
We are using OneDrive in a few isolated departments and not companywide. It addresses a constant issue that we have as a SaaS company, which is the storage of sensitive data. We need to store things like lead data, but also need to make sure it is on tight lockdown. OneDrive is good for this.
- OneDrive is great for securely storing data.
- Easy and fairly intuitive.
- Not very hard to teach someone how to use.
- The downloadable application for the desktop is rather clunky.
- Free version has very limited storage.
- Can be a bit flustering at times.
April 02, 2019
Practical
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
OneDrive is used by the entire company, with a little more than 200 employees. It is incorporated into our corporate email, where we acquired the entire Office 365 package. We concentrate on shared and private files, documents that accompany us everywhere, everything in the tool helps us to make work routines more practical.
- It is very easy to use, intuitive, has no way to get in the way.
- Useful tools in the suite.
- Availability, being in the cloud, follows you wherever you go, you only need a connection to the web.
- Lightweight, does not crash, loads files quickly.
- Sharing within a group was a bit confusing, since the existence of multiple files was shared with multiple emails and I could not keep track of them. I needed to add each email to the shared folder.
December 12, 2018
OneDrive - Almost there.....
Being a Microsoft shop, the integration of OneDrive into the OS has been a boon to users. We have leveraged this integration by configuring the service to include the users desktop and documents folders to provide a seamless "cloud backup" of their important files. Through this, users always have access to their most important documents regardless of the device being used.
- Simple user interface. Used in conjunction with the Windows OS, users simply need to know how to place a file in a folder and not have to deal with a complicated client.
- Easily noticeable visual cues regarding the status of a document sync to the cloud drive.
- Full Integration into other Microsoft products , e.g Office.
- The web interface provides a familiar look to people accustomed to using Windows devices and an easy interface to learn for those who are not.
- Better integration into other Operating Systems, e.g OSX and Linux. While a client can integrate with these, the experience is not as seamless as that in Windows.
- Better image tools allowing online processing of pictures.
- The ability to stream music from the service.
December 11, 2018
Features out the wazoo but still somewhat clunky
Our entire organization uses OneDrive. It functions as a continuous backup of the files on my laptop, allows my team (and the entire company) to share files and collaboratively work on documents, spreadsheets, images, slide decks, etc. The ability to collaborate—and especially for multiple people to collaborate on the same document at the same time—is quite useful.
- I especially appreciate OneDrive as a way for us to store documents in the cloud. I make sure that all mission-critical work is included in a OneDrive-synced folder, and therefore don't have to worry if my computer crashes or hard drive fails.
- Collaboration. The ability for multiple people to work on a document at the same time is key.
- Integration with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc. Being able to open a doc in the native desktop apps, then save it and know that it's updated automatically in OneDrive is great.
- Integration with Mac OS X. Being able to share docs right from the Finder is excellent.
- Occasionally the backup functionality fails for certain files. This is rare (and you can see exactly what is synced and what is not) but I am still unclear as to why certain files resist syncing.
- The browser-based apps for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint not only lack the full-featured functionality of the native desktop apps, but it's clear they weren't designed for browsers. My biggest point of comparison is Google Docs, Sheets & Slides. While Google's apps may not be as powerful, they were designed for a browser from the ground up, they run more smoothly and my team would prefer to collaborate in Google than in OneDrive.
- It's just a little clunky and could be more user-friendly. Specifically, sharing settings can be confusing or frustrating and require multiple steps to approve when someone requests access to a doc.
- It's more of a pain to invite external people to contribute to a doc as they have to sign up for a Microsoft account in order to access the docs.
December 10, 2018
OneDrive Solutions
Working in an educational facility, OneDrive is used for instructors' personal drives for storage of documents related to instruction and other school-based materials. As part of our organization's rollout of Office 365 and other Office apps, our organization has utilized OneDrive instead of local server based personal storage options. It is also used as a platform for collaboration between instructors using the cloud-based sharing tools available.
- Accessibility on PC - OneDrive is integrated and easy to access on Windows-based PCs.
- Service is Reliable - The OneDrive service rarely goes offline.
- Integration with Office Apps - OneDrive integrated with other Office applications, such as Microsoft Word, to allow for a seamless creation and document saving process.
- User Interface - Compared to their main competitor, Google Drive, the interface feels 'clunky'. Some actions do not feel intuitive or have an odd layout.
- Integration on Mac - On Apple Mac computers, the OneDrive app (especially OneDrive for Business) is unreliable and does not work as well as its PC counterpart.
- Storage Limits - While not unique to OneDrive, storage limits on free personal accounts are slim, requiring a paid subscription for larger storage tiers.
July 24, 2018
OneDrive Review
A very useful tool for syncing file backups to the cloud. We used Active Directory to move all users' folders (Desktop, Documents, Pictures, and Videos) to OneDrive. They are all backed up and synced immediately to the cloud. When a user's computer goes down or we need to set them up on another device, we just create a new profile and then sign the into OneDrive and they have access to all their files and they are kept in sync across devices. Not easy to deploy but a good solution.
- Backing up files in real time.
- Clou- based backups.
- The speed of syncs is very good.
- Affordable.
- Version control.
- Very little monitoring capabilities for the admins. Using PowerShell to generate user reports (usage, sync status, etc.). The online admin interface says these reports are coming but it has said that for over a year.
- Difficult to release to too many users. Ended up having to use some detailed scripts with AD to get it installed.
- Little to no resources for developers/administrators. Thanks, MS. Must rely on the MS user network.
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User
Onedrive is extremely useful and it is used in every department of our business. We use it to store and save every type of file in the cloud and that way we can access them in every device or PC of our company. By using it, we only need an internet connection to share files, and when there are no flash drives or portable hard drives is the best tool for copying or exchanging data and information between our PCs.
- It comes preinstalled with windows 8 and 10 and it automatically links your Microsoft account, so accessing our files from the cloud is really easy and requires no installations.
- Since it was developed by Microsoft it has an almost perfect integration with Windows operating system (which is the most common system used in every business) so there are almost no bugs or problems.
- Having a backup of information in the cloud is extremely useful since it can be accessed anywhere just with an internet connection.
- Something I found is that there is no encryption in a loaded file. For example, when uploading a password protected file from Excel, that protection will be lost in the cloud.
- It's free space is really limited, just 5 GB, so if you need more space be prepared to pay.
- It can be a bit buggy when online.
OneDrive is enabled on all our users because of our O365 subscriptions but the official solution that is promoted and supported is Google Drive. The only real plus value of OneDrive is the huge 1TB included of storage with O365 subscriptions. The OneDrive client is also useful to sync Sharepoint sites.
- Only solution to sync Sharepoint sites
- Best storage to price ratio
- Good integration on Windows
- OneDrive client is horrible on macOS
- Official OneDrive client is non-existent on Linux
- OneDrive support on older Windows versions like 8.1 and less is still buggy
- Sharepoint still tries to use the old OneDrive client by default. You need to go in the setting and tell it to use the new client.
- Even if it is a lot better then before, OneDrive client is still often not able to sync folders with huge items or a huge amount of small items.
January 16, 2018
One Drive, create it,see it,reach it from anywhere.
We have started using it by departments, with the intention of using it for the whole organization. It's currently addressing issues with on-premise server space. This will lower our overall cost and allow the end user to reach their files from any device and more reliably.
- Large amount of space to save data
- Allowing the end user share and maintain their files for easier access to others
- Available to sync across all devices
- Saving photos and PDFs
- Searching for files
- Uploading could be a bit easier
December 06, 2017
Personal Storage, Enterprise Control
We were looking for an easy to implement replacement for some sections of our file server. Users were needing to share files outside the organization or to other employees that wouldn't have access to those directories on the file server. We also needed a solution that provided governance and would allow for easy audits and scanning. OneDrive plays nicely with our Office 365 service and is easy to deploy out to users who already have an email account with us.
- Data governance. OneDrive allows for the same compliance and security configuration as Office 365, which makes it really easy for us to ensure that data that shouldn't be shared isn't and that data that needs to be secured is secured.
- User friendly, familiar interface for desktop integration makes it more likely to be adopted by users.
- Sharing from within apps like Word and Excel, or the option to attach a copy to emails rather than only share the document.
- Multiple versions of the application have created conflicts with one another that can create multiple unsynced folders on the workstation.
- The SharePoint online type interface is more difficult to navigate than it needs to be.
- For OneDrive for Business, external sharing is disabled by default, which if administrators don't review those settings, can be frustrating.
September 29, 2016
OneDrive: A stripped down, cheaper, more efficient version of SharePoint
We use onedrive as a quick, easy alternative to SharePoint. It is mainly used within select engineering teams and has expanded to IT. It is a tool that each team chooses whether they want to implement it or not. The main benefit of it is it gives us a living document for installs and documentation that can be updated by anyone with access in real time with multiple collaborators.
- Easy storage of Microsoft Office application files
- Live collaboration with multiple users
- Easy online and native app access
- Sharing is not very granular
- Storage limits
- Web interface of directory is chunky and not elegant.
September 26, 2016
OneDrive for Business is what every corporate backup should be
This is for OneDrive for Business. Note: I use OneDrive as cloud file repository and personal backup solution that has both PC and mobile access. At work, my colleagues (within the department) and my project team use OneDrive for Business to sync our project files and work files as a backup solution.
- Seamless syncing and backup over a corporate network. There is no need for manual upload and download of files anymore.
- Access is controlled via MS Active Directory. Our files cannot be accessed by others outside our department/project team.
- Secured environment. Syncing to the server is over our corporate network and VPN from home.
- Setting up folders can be done easily from SharePoint without much configuration.
- Need to install OneDrive for Business. This is installed together with our Office Enterprise in our work laptops. We need the IT team to install this or [get it] pushed down from central management.
- The disk quota is unknown. Unlike OneDrive at home, the available space is not really visible to the client.
- After setting up the folder, it is hard to move it to another folder - for example moving from My Documents to D:/ Drive to reclaim space.