Sharing files using Onedrive

[Tigris]

Hey,

i've got a client who has 3 members of staff, all with different Onedrive accounts (1TB storage each). user@ user1@ user2@ for example.

They want to share files between all staff members. Am I right in thinking, create one folder with the company name and put all files in that folder? This one main folder will appear on the desktop.

The users do use the Onedrive accounts for personal files hence the 1 folder with the company name as a master folder if you like.

Can the folder be shared via Windows or does it need to be done through the Office365/Onedrive website?

 

[MikeJ]

I think you need to look at Sharepoint rather than Onedrive.

 

[Dan Warfield]

you can get microsoft 365 business Standard account for £9.60 per user per month. This includes Exchange email, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, and Office desktop versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, plus Access & Publisher for PC. The main value of this for me has been excellent human support and pretty robust security features. The downside is that you have to develop a minimal level of m365 admin competencies such as adding users, managing licenses, etc.

 

[Tigris]

you can get microsoft 365 business Standard account for £9.60 per user per month. This includes Exchange email, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, and Office desktop versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, plus Access & Publisher for PC. The main value of this for me has been excellent human support and pretty robust security features. The downside is that you have to develop a minimal level of m365 admin competencies such as adding users, managing licenses, etc.

That's what they must have currently.

They have there own domain with the 3 email addresses as well as 1TB Onedrive storage each.

 

[Paul Kelly ICHYB]

If not sharepoint, maybe one person creates a shared folder?

You can then map a drive letter to that shared folder on each computer?

 

[Tigris]

If not sharepoint, maybe one person creates a shared folder?

You can then map a drive letter to that shared folder on each computer?

They are currently using Onedrive hence me thinking one company folder and everything they wish to share goes into that.

Sharepoint is good but I don't want to confuse the users with another technology if they are used to Onedrive and it is just to share some files.

 

[Paul Carmen]

We'd need to understand your setup, but it sounds like each Onedrive is personal storage. This is not designed for sharing folders across different users.

If you have MS 365 with multiple licenses (essentially a company/business setup), what you do is create a Sharepoint instance and add all relevant users. You then map the Sharepoint folders to each individuals company Onedrive, then each user then has access to the folders (and you have proper version control etc too).

 

[Martin Patfield]

I've no idea what I've done.

Office 365 business users.


In the summer I started using OneDrive and have PC synced to laptop.

User 1
User 2

I think I've got a folder called "Shared Folder" with all relevent documents that want multiple access with multiple users using and updating the file in real time.

User 1 shared that folder with User 2. It's been working fine.
Probably not the correct way to do it but it works.