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OneDrive from Microsoft is a cloud storage and file syncing service.
OneDrive starts at $5.
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The most common users of OneDrive are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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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.
April 24, 2017
The easiest and most powerful cloud service in market
Score 9 out of 10
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Our company uses Onedrive for our main file hosting service. It is being used by our entire department. It is an excellent cloud service and best suited one for us. It founded by Microsoft and there is no need for extra words about it. I especially love that you can view and edit all of your files across all of your devices.
- Syncing ability is great
- Different storage plans
- Reasonable Price
- Customer service need some improvement
- Overall design and interface is hard to use
- Integration with other apps
- I can't remember any extremely bad thing about OneDrive. It is Microsoft!
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.
August 22, 2016
Document management helps with projects
Being a project coordinator, I use Onedrive to manage project documents. In fact I use a couple of project management systems to mange tasks but use OneDrive to manage documents and attach them to other systems. Onedrive is used within our office for managing project related documents and our internal process documents. Using online documents makes it easy to share them with other people outside our company domain.
- Document sharing is a great feature within the Onedrive application. Documents can be shared with clients and they can review our project status.
- Online documents help with accessing data anytime from anywhere. It keeps the data secure and backed up.
- The calendar helps with managing meeting events very easily.
- Emails from Onedrive help as needed as well. I only use Onedrive emails for project alerts but it works great.
- The iOS 9.3 app did not work easily. It seems there were some bugs with accessing the iOS 9.3 mobile app.
- PowerPoint works good but it does not have all the features and themes as the offline version of PowerPoint.
August 15, 2016
OneDrive - mange emails well via Outlook Online.
I started using OneDrive when it was called Sky Drive. OneDrive in many aspects competes with Google Drive. We use OneDrive for document collaboration with a couple of clients. So a few people on our project team have experience working on it. I use OneDrive for email purposes as well. We own an MS partners account and login via a OneDrive email account to it.
- OneDrive email functionality is great. It works on our private domain names as well.
- OneDrive provides documents collaboration online. This helps with sharing docs and content with others easily.
- The online Outlook version helps with managing emails in a great format.
- SPAM Detection needs to be improved. Sometimes emails are marked as SPAM so this can be worked upon.
- Not sure if they provide PowerPoint online since I never used it. If not, it would be best to be introduced.
- Offline Sync would be great to improve using their current processes.
July 18, 2016
One rive Hills and Valleys
OneDrive is used by all users in the organization. We use it to store our personal and sensitive data into the cloud. We have lost countless documents due to some laptops crashing and resorted to using incomplete documents from our email. We use Onedrive as a backup mechanism for our machines and as a way to share content with other users inside and outside our organization that reduces the number of emails going back and forth with revisions.
- OneDrive allows users to upload documents and videos into the cloud via a webpage or through a linked folder on your machine. Although I do not use the link method as I am not certain if it will use up space on my hard drive.
- Since I store everything on the web I can utilize the smaller and the more affordable SSD drives which do perform better and have less failures for other data that is stored on my machine.
- I am able to share content to users within my organization and at the same time allow them to make changes to the data, if needed. Another group I can share is with users outside the organization when emails just won't work due to the size of the file.
- Downloading folders from the web has its limitations. When I used Gdrive I could download an entire folder and it would automatically zip the file and allow me to download, which granted was a slow process. But I have not been able to find out how to do it on OneDrive. I am not able to select all and then click download
- OneDrive still reminds me of SharePoint where it is not as flexible as some of the newer web enabled apps out there when trying to share with one or multiple groups of people. SharePoint is very clunky when trying to upload or download mass volumes of data.
- When modifying data on the web directly, there are a lot of times a lag that is apparent. Gdrive is definitely more crisper when multiple people are working inside of a document. Also every time I open the document in the web, it is in readonly mode. I need the ability to edit immediately on the web and then decide to download if required.
June 13, 2016
Easy access to photos
Everybody was using it to access different design pictures. These pictures can be accessed from everywhere and can be used as an inspiration or to show to clients as an inspiration as well. I also use it for personal purposes to have an access to my Excel budget wherever I go.
- The access is really quick and it's easy to use.
- It is available everywhere with any kind of device.
- My files are really secured because it is a Microsoft product.
- I would like to be able to see quickly which files are private and which ones are not.
- The free space will be lower in July.
- It is hard to find a photo with a keyword.
OneDrive was used by several departments across a city government network here in the Bay Area. It helped address a lot of issues pertaining to document syncing between devices, document sharing amongst colleagues, and document backup storage.
- Large backend infrastructure (Microsoft)
- A lot of support documentation is available online
- Plays nicely with other Microsoft products (Office Suites)
- Syncing would often break between OneDrive and local machines
- Syncing errors were often hard to troubleshoot
- Not as user-intuitive as competitors (Google Drive and Dropbox)
June 10, 2016
A Decent Tool if it's Part of a Bundle
OneDrive is currently being used as a file distribution/sharing platform across all departments. The main problem it is trying to eliminate is isolated storage.
- Synchronization with ADFS/Azure and the associated permissions
- Web portal versions of the MS Office Suite
- Sharing and distributing files across teams and multi-user editing sessions
- There is little to no support for the Macintosh platform, OneDrive for Business doesn't even run properly.
- No SharePoint support for the Mac client.
- Sync engine for PC is buggy at best, requiring constant rebuilds of the SharePoint library on users' computers
At our company we use a mix of OneDrive (consumer) and OneDrive for Business. OneDrive for Business is used purely for company use. Syncing has always been an issue until Windows 10 came out. Since Windows 10 - OneDrive for Business has been working well. On the personal side of things - we use OneDrive (consumer) since it's native to Windows 10, it works great. Everyone has their own MS account in which they link this account to.
- Version control.
- Online display of file details, size etc.
- Sync works very well - onedrive consumer and next gen business client for onedrive for Business.
- Better differentiation of consumer vs. onedrive for Business
- Need to be able to sync "shared with me" files - on the business side.
- Would like to be able to save from Outlook - to a "shared with me" - currently this is only available online.
June 09, 2016
Very nice, but be careful!
Since the use of file servers is less and less popular, it was logical that our users start using Dropbox and Google Drive. When we did the migration to Office 365, OneDrive became an option for many of our users. Although use is not very popular in the enterprise, storage of 1TB is very attractive. I can not identify specific groups or a department, but the use of "Sharepoint Apps" in OneDrive is a benefit for many.
- 1 TB of storage, which is very cool.
- Embedded with SharePoint and Yammer.
- IT can manage it like a SharePoint site.
- No "Transfer Ownership" feature, meaning that when you remove an employee license (termination for example), the data is deleted on the backend.
- The sync client is very buggy.
- Slow.
June 07, 2016
Simple User's Assessment of OneDrive.
The plan is for it to be implemented to all users. I will be used as an alternative to having a personal network homedrive or storing data on their local machines. It will address access to files online or offline. It will enable access from multiple devices for users and not just their work devices.
- File synchronization when making offline updates then going online.
- File sharing.
- Availability via multiple devices (PC, smartphone, tablets, etc.).
- Better ability to update files from online versions of applications (i.e. severely limited with formulas and calculation features with Excel).
- More consistent sharing features (Online seems to function much more efficiently than sharing from explorer directories).
June 03, 2016
OneDrive
We use OneDrive to help with marketing personal share materials with ease, without complicated logins and VPN access.
- Easy access
- Large storage
- Better integration with Office
- It's a bit problematic with firewalls
OneDrive is being used by the marketing department of our organization. OneDrive has become indispensable to me. It's like having a single shared data and other files folder for all my devices. If you have enough space with your OneDrive account, you may find that you don't even need to backup most things anymore. This is one of those products that make you stop and smile once in a while as you remember how much work it used to be to accomplish something close to what it does. Seamless and easy to use, but accomplishes SO much and saves SO much time.
- All my files are secure and not taking up space on any of my devices' hard drives.
- You can create, edit and view folders, notes, to do lists, etc., on all your devices including your Windows PC, iOS devices and Android.
- It is easy to share photos with. I upload photos from my computer and then have access to them almost anywhere. Downloading to Facebook is very easy to do.
- Sometimes the app is not consistent and will miss edits. I noticed the lasted edits I made to a document from my PC did not transfer to my tablet when I access.
- The storage is definitely inadequate when considering that extra high resolution photos from newer devices will fill it up in no time when backing up camera to the camera roll.
- Sometimes the app crashes on my tablet. I find this most common when trying to access a large file.
June 02, 2016
All your important documents in one place
I use it in my university. We have all the documents that we share between students and teaching stuff in the OneDrive cloud. It solves the problem of having a single document in a flash drive. With OneDrive we have all those documents in the cloud and they update automatically.
- It is fast, the upload is made easily.
- It is reliable, you can have all your important documents and don't need to worry about losing them.
- It has a large space of storage.
- The integration with Microsoft Office is ideal.
- It doesn't have double step of authentication.
- You can't share a folder as with other services.
June 01, 2016
OneDrive for Business Users
We use it across the business to store our own desktops, so we can access anywhere as long as we have access to the internet. We can then also share files between people with different permissions. It allows us to work remotely and pick up where we left a piece of work.
- Stores large files - can store a lot of images quite easily.
- Sharing files - although not its primary function, it can be done easily and is very convenient.
- Edit documents online - you don't need to be on a computer with office software to edit and update documents.
- Syncing issues between versions - they could make it a lot easier to use and update with some clearer instructions.
- Mac compatibility - this could be greatly improved, a lot more thought should be given to this area.
May 31, 2016
Best cloud sharing for business users.
Onedrive is used as a cloud repository for all local documents. At our organization the majority of new laptops have 128GB SSD out of which 10GB will be lost in backup and other OS activity. With Onedrive we are able to get 1TB of free space and sync all our documents across different machines in our organization. This is really helpful in case of an accidental crash or any other issues.
- Sync all the data across different machines.
- 1TB of free space with corporate account.
- History tracking and version updates.
- In some scenarios Onedrive takes a long time to sync files and it causes issues on the application side if you want to edit it. The application will throw an exception as the file being used by Onedrive service.
- OneDrive creates new file when sync is in progress and that makes another version of file with the user changing the file. It gets difficult sometimes to sync these files. They should improve sync process.
- OneDrive creates default a folder on a laptop under the user directory. If a user could control the location it would be helpful. By having it at user level it takes time to load the profile every time a user logs in to a machine.
May 26, 2016
One Drive Review
OneDrive is currently being used as a storage within our organization and the problems that it addressed are ease of storage and file sharing.
- Free Microsoft Word
- Large storage size
- Simple UI interface
- Pretty
- Better performance on Microsoft Word online
- Increase file upload size
- More customization on editing folders (e.g. change icons)
May 25, 2016
Onedrive is great for photo and general backup
Onedrive is not used by my employer or even recommended by them. It is not being used by any department that I know about. I use it on my own to back up my work and share large files. I started using it even more after I got a promotional offer from Bing rewards to redeem my Bing rewards for 2 years of extended storage.
- Easy to use. There is not much to it.
- Camera backup for my phone.
- Web app for uploading is very good.
- Allows sharing public file links easily without requiring the viewer to have an account.
- More advanced options are hard to find. e.g. to change which files to keep locally and which files to keep only on cloud.
- Phone interface for browsing file could be redesigned.
May 24, 2016
OneDrive to rule them all? Not so much.
OneDrive is integrated with Windows, and can automate saving of documents and files for sharing and collaboration. A nice idea, but often it is confusing to our users because it is not quite as easy and straightforward for tech illiterate folks as competing offerings from Dropbox. OneDrive makes it easy to have your files on many devices, and computers that you may use during the day. But it's just kind of clunky and some people don't even know they are using it.
- Integrated with Windows
- Lots of space for a reasonable cost
- Access files from almost any device you can log into
- They keep renaming the service, Cloud Mesh, Mesh Drive, OneDrive. Some people don't know what it is.
- It's kind of confusing and clunky because it starts asking you questions and most people have it turned on without knowing, )or off).
- Being associated with Microsoft means sometimes the product ties with Office 365 are a plus, but is also confusing for non Office users.
OneDrive is being used to collaboratively edit Office documents (Word and Powerpoint specifically).
- Windows/Office integration
- Easy to register/share links
- Cheap to get storage with promotions and other softwares
- Often slower network than other alternatives
- Very troublesome to merge changes (Word/PowerPoint)
I personally use OneDrive for easy backup of important files and data as well as for portability of data. OneDrive makes it easy for me to access all my documents that I need from any device I own, no matter where I am. I can start working on some documents on one device and finish it off in another.
- OneDrive is multi-platform
- Easy to use interface
- Portability and mobility of your documents
- Free membership has limited storage
- Needs more work on mobile platforms
- Needs more security features
May 21, 2016
OneDrive - Microsoft cloud storage
OneDrive is convenient because it is built into Windows 8+ and the latest Microsoft Office apps. It is about on par with other cloud storage services, such as Dropbox and Google Drive.
- Windows integration
- Cross-platform support
- Microsoft Office integration
- The interface is sometimes lacking
- The web apps sometimes lack vital features only present in the native apps
- No Chrome OS support from Microsoft (unlike Google Drive, which works on Windows and Chrome OS)
May 21, 2016
OneDrive To Rule Them All
Currently, I am an independent contractor and I use OneDrive to consolidate all of my files, to be used remotely and quickly access what I need. I also use it for samples and test work to show clients on location, or as a quick link.
- OneDrive has easy integration with my PC. It was preinstalled and is easy to use through the built-in OneDrive application.
- It essentially acts as a virtual PC for file management in the way it is set up and structured.
- The ability to access OneDrive online based on files saved on my desktop is extremely helpful, and offers more space than options like DropBox.
- When saving on the desktop, it usually doesn't have a clear option to set as a default. Many files are accidentally saved through OneDrive because the hierarchy resembles exactly the PC ecosystem.
- There are issues with loading and creating documents on the web client. It is much more efficient to create documents in other programs and load through the desktop application.
- Not fully compatible with previous versions. Documents saved using Windows 8 or 7 may not be compatible with other versions of OneDrive and remain inaccessible unless you are using the same machine