OneDrive for Business is a new Microsoft cloud offering with 1TB space for any user for the best price available in the cloud market today. Fig.: OneDrive for Business as offered by Microsoft starting July 2014. But it's not only about storage. The OneDrive for Business document library is part of a user's My Site.By default, the quota for each user's My Site in SharePoint Server 2013 is 100 MB. If you plan to use the OneDrive for Business document library for users to store their files, you should increase this default quota limit. Now you have to two options. How to back up SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business? Here is a short preview of how to back up and restore SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business data: First, download Backup for Office 365 (it includes a 30-day free trial version). Next, on the Jobs tab, create a new SharePoint backup job.
On-Prem & Legacy SharePoint
For SharePoint on premise users, one of the key disadvantages of Microsoft’s OneDrive synchronisation solution is that it only works well with the online Office365 and SharePoint.
Quite simply, if you are trying to synchronise with SharePoint 2007 or SharePoint 2010… OneDrive Next Generation will simply not work.
Microsoft’s OneDrive for Business has Issues.
Microsoft still offers the aging OneDrive for Business as a solution, but there are numerous restrictions and limitations when you sync SharePoint libraries to your computer:
- You can’t easily select what you want to sync. It’s all or nothing.
- You can only sync up to 5,000 items in a SharePoint library.
- You can only sync up to 20,000 items across all synchronized libraries.
- To get files to sync successfully, you may have to rename any file name that contains unsupported characters – (Get used to replacing , /, :, *, ?, “, <, >, | , # , % in every single file name.)
But you don’t have to take our word for it – this Microsoft web page lists many of the issues.
SharePoint Cloud vs On Premise – Offline sync no longer the decider
Easier 365: A Solution That Really Works
In stark contrast, Easier365 has no such limits:
- Synchronise as much as you want or need. There are no prescribed file limits.
- Pick and choose exactly what you want – choose to Sync at a File, Folder or Site Library level.
- You don’t need to edit out special characters. Easier365 does it for you on the fly.
Microsoft Sharepoint On Premise
You also enjoy access to other key standard features, including:
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- Full metadata support
- Support for SharePoint Views and Content Types
- Full Activity reporting
Offline Versioning
The Easier365 Conflict Manager