Many organizations are coming up on their first-year anniversary of supporting a remote workforce. While some have already started transitioning people back to the office, whether in full-time or hyb...
Updated Mar 24, 2021
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I am a huge fan of One Drive mainly because of its integration into the OS. However, I strongly advise against using it in a shared working environment where up to date synced data is required.
While manual upload is reliable and links can easily be shared, the syncing app simply does not work "professionally". Changing data frequently - which you do when discussing things via voice chat or screen share - will turn into painfully out of sync results on One Drive, with its single file processing and extreme long delays between checks.
Often enough data will not be synced at all, even restarting the service won't force an update, but you will not get any information about the lack of updates.
My personal experience says: never use One Drive for critical (synced) up to date information, always manually check status of files.
It is unfortunate that - except for actually "shared access" on servers using VPN or other means - even today cooperative work with data poses so much trouble.