OneDrive

Kommentare: Our company has been able to share files remotely with confidence that they will be secure. Because OneDrive is very intuitive/familiar, it is easy to implement with all of our employees.

Vorteile: The ease of use, security, and richness of features makes using OneDrive a no-brainer. I love the auto-save feature in particular which has saved my bacon a number of times from losing data or full documents. Being able to share documents, spreadsheets, presentations, PDF's, and images with anyone anywhere at anytime is hugely convenient. It's also very fast - no perceptible difference most times between accessing something from the local drive and the cloud.

Nachteile: There's not an easy to find FAQ or how-to that I am aware of when you open OneDrive. It seems to me that there could be an automated walkthrough or even a help file that would reveal ways to better use OneDrive.

Kommentare: I am using office applications very frequently and I need to keep the files in some place that I can access them whenever I want, this tool is very useful for me. Another cool thing is that I can share the files with my friends and many people can work on one file at the same time.

Vorteile: This product is developed by Microsoft and it comes in Microsoft Office bundle, first times I thought it is not that much useful application. However, afterwards I have started to use office applications I saw that how useful this application is. Firstly it is integrated with Microsoft Office applications, and you can keep all your files on the drive, it also can be integrated with your email and you can share files through drive if they are not not shareable through email. Another good side of this application is that it is available on all platforms and you can use it for sharing the files between devices.

Nachteile: I have some concerns regarding use the application on my PC, the problem is that it always running on the background and since my laptop is a bit slower it downs the performance. When I turn of it my windows protection gives error. Rather than this, I do not have any problems with this application.

Kommentare: I think OneDrive is a premier program that is worthy of your use! For more than two years, I have been a happy customer and user of OneDrive at my workplace. I've found my coworkers often agree; it is the program of choice when compared to its competitors like DropBox or iCloud Files. Definitely recommend to use this program!

Vorteile: OneDrive is an excellent component of the Office 365 suite for our workplace. The functionality is great and often ahead of its competitors like Dropbox. For example, it is very intuitive to use the desktop and mobile apps. They don't transfer every file to your computer -- which is excellent because it saves space -- and instead, they store them in the cloud until you go into the app and select what you need. For a OneDrive folder with many gigabytes of files and photos, this is a life saver! I also like how responsive OneDrive is -- for example, if you make an update on the mobile app or on your computer, the other devices you use are immediately synced with very little lag time. This is quite an improvement over previous versions of OneDrive, to be sure, but also a marked improvement over competitors like DropBox or Google Drive. Plus, you can easily share links or files with your coworkers or members of the public, even if they don't use OneDrive themselves. That's the kind of advanced functionality missing from iCloud, but present in OneDrive - thank you! If you're a novice, intermediate, or advanced user, OneDrive is definitely for you!

Nachteile: There are just a few glitches that bring down the overall quality of OneDrive. For example, sometimes shared files get messed up when using the desktop and mobile apps, and you have to re-sync them as a result. A minor hassle, but a hassle nonetheless. There are also bits and pieces of OneDrive's operating UI that make it less than intuitive; for example, to download a photo from the OneDrive app to your phone, there are a number of less-than-intuitive steps you have to take in order to complete the action. I think there is definitely room for refining small features like that -- but that's exactly what they are, minor annoyances or problems that can be improved upon, but that don't hinder from the overall functionality of the program.

Kommentare: Overall, our experience with OneDrive has been positive and exciting. Despite a few technological difficulties when we were first getting started, we feel it is one tool that is here to stay. We use it the most for report writing, which used to consist of each researcher building out their section of the PowerPoint deck and then combining them into one file at the end. There are many problems with this, such as inconsistent formatting and design, varying voice and tone, or duplication of findings or data. This old process required a day's worth of work to combine all files into one and clean up all of the mess. With OneDrive, we still have our own sections of the report to write, but now we can work simultaneously in the same document, saving time, increasing quality, and encouraging more collaboration among the team.

Vorteile: My favorite OneDrive feature is its integration into the Microsoft Office suite — the ability to share and collaborate with colleagues on documents in Word, data sets in Excel, research reports in PowerPoint, and meeting notes in OneNote, has completely changed the way our research team executes a project. And when we are chatting back and forth in Microsoft Teams, we are able to share OneDrive files directly through the chat window. This suite-wide integration saves A LOT of time, and ensures our final product is the best rendition of our work — from the proposal, to the survey questionnaire, to the survey data, to the final report, we no longer worry about someone's contribution getting lost among the endless file versions that we used to circle back and forth via email until the report was complete.

Nachteile: My least favorite thing about OneDrive is not always knowing where the files I've shared to OneDrive "live." I have a OneDrive folder in my Mac's Finder and the OneDrive Desktop App, but often times I have to go to the OneDrive website to locate my shared files. A few colleagues have dealt with this same frustration — saving files to OneDrive is completely simple, but then where do they go? We are hoping our upcoming OneDrive training session will help alleviate this.

Kommentare: We needed a way to offload our internal storage to a cloud environment. We were looking into Office 365 already for Teams and Exchange Online, and OneDrive was a piece of that offering. It completely met our needs and included added functionality which was an added bonus. OneDrive has made working remotely, whether on vacation or business, much more simple.

Vorteile: I love that I can access my documents anywhere on any device. I don't have to VPN to get behind my company's firewall if I'm out of the office. I can hop on my personal laptop, or better yet on my phone or tablet to access my docs and start working. It makes working remotely on the road much easier. I can also share my documents with others both in and outside of my organization without emailing a copy. I can grant them permission to edit a doc located in my OneDrive folder. It's made collaboration much easier, especially if you're not using SharePoint or another file storage application. But really, if you're using OneDrive, you're using SharePoint. It's just another option of how to share and collaborate.

Nachteile: Some of the settings can get tricky. Administrators have a lot of power to lock down OneDrive. In fact, they can restrict access altogether on any device other than your registered machine. We went really strict at first with our administration, and then let up as we got into the full capabilities and functionality. We also have a setting currently enabled where our managers automatically have access to our documentation, which isn't great. We just ne