OneDrive for Business vs OneDrive: Know The Difference

OneDrive for Business vs OneDrive: Know The Difference

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About Benjamin NiaulinBenjamin Niaulin is an Office Servers and Services

MVP, recognized as one of the Top 25 SharePoint

influencers in 2014 and 2nd for Office 365 in 2015.

Being a Microsoft Certified Trainer since 2008 has

allowed him to become proficient in simplifying

complex technologies, making him an expert in

SharePoint & Office 365 vulgarization. He spoke at over

200 conferences around the world.

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What is OneDrive?

• It's presented as the "One place for

everything in your life"

• Personal place for you to store your

files, and access them later from any

device

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• It is also part of your Office dashboard with Outlook

(previously Hotmail), your calendar, etc.

OneDrive: Part of your personal Office suite

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• Co-authoring on Office documents • Use the Office Suite to work on your files

• Versioning of documents so you can revert

• Allows simple external sharing • Does not use organization credentials

to log in • Embed: Generate an HTML code that

allows you to embed your files somewhere else

What Do You Get with OneDrive?

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OneDrive - What to Watch Out For

• It's meant for individual and personal usage, and cannot be shared with organization (Office 365) users

• No management features, no auditing or reporting possible • Cannot manage users • Very basic document management (no tagging, no workflows,

etc..) • Less storage by default (possibility to pay for more)

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But What About OneDrive for Business?

• The names are similar, but OneDrive for Business has nothing to do with OneDrive!

• At its core, OneDrive for Business is a personal space for you to store your work

• It allows you to synchronize your files offline  • Familiar with SharePoint? It's the new My Sites - a Personal Site

Collection for each individual 

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Where to find it

• Part of SharePoint On-Premises (My Sites) and Office 365 • Available on mobile devices & desktops • Accessed from the Office 365/SharePoint Suite Bar

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What Do You Get With OneDrive for Business ?

• Document Library • Increased Sync Limit (20,000 documents) • Access to Outlook Groups Files • 1TB of storage (soon to be unlimited)

A personal Site Collection with:

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What Do You Get With OneDrive for Business ?

• Complete control over versioning • Granular sharing options • Anonymous guest links • Expiration dates • External Users

Advanced document management

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What Do You Get With OneDrive for Business ?

• Organization accounts (manage users) • Advanced Authentication Management - enterprise grade • MDM Mobile Device Management • EDiscovery of content • Retention and document policies

Better security/control

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OneDrive for Business - What to Watch out For

• Not meant to centralize team documents (meant for personal use like My Documents)

• Cannot replace your file shares (That's SharePoint's job) • Store permanent and important documents for the business

(your OneDrive for Business site will leave when you leave)

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Time to compare the two!

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Accessibility

Desktop Syncing

Mobile Access

Create/Edit Office Documents in a Browser

Built in Integration With Office Desktop

SSO/ADFS/Directory Sync Support

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Real Time Co-Authoring on Office Documents

Share a Document With External Users:

Using an Anonymous Guest Link

By Email

Versioning and History of Documents

Basic Automatic Creation and Recovery of Versions

Management of Versioning (Major and minor versions or major only, manual creation of versions, require checkout option and other advanced versioning options)

Accessibility

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Security and Management

Multifactor Authentication Support

Auditing and Reporting

Built in Standards Compliance

Advanced Administration for Granular Control

Mobile Device Management

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Storage

Storage (See prices for additional storage)

15GB 1TB per

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