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> If you replace office, you'll have to replace sharepoint, onedrive, etc.

At least in my workplace, people do their best to avoid using sharepoint and onedrive anyway.





in corporate america, it's everywhere, to the point where people's compromised accounts being used to send phishing content via sharepoint/onedrive is extremely common. It is (rightfully) highly encouraged as well due to their built-in data loss prevention stuff (Microsoft information protection/MIP), it's the only reasonable way I've seen to get a handle on secret documents/content/slides from leaking too much.

Are there downsides to OneDrive?

I can see being resistant to change, haven't had issues with it (and have benefitted from the auto save quite a lot).


It's not at all about being "resistant to change". OneDrive has been around long enough that it doesn't really count as "change" anymore.

There are downsides to OneDrive. Topping the list is the risk of data loss. Every dev here has at least one story of OneDrive getting confused in a way that led to data loss (that's usually what got them to start avoiding using it). It can also be inconvenient and get in the way in more minor ways, such as causing path confusion with some applications.

The benefits, at least where I work, are pretty minimal. So, on the whole, people tend to keep their documents in unsynced folders. The only people I've talked to here that have anything positive to say about it are managers.


Is this the SharePoint backed OneDrive that you get with a business subscription?

I've had some irritations with it, but overall having versioning has been a much bigger benefit than the hassle.




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