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All, As a leader in an Emergency Incident Management Team we are looking to utilize Teams as our communication platform. We are currently utilizing the free version (access to full in the works) as ...
Thanks for the quick response !!!
We operate as a Team at home in NYC.
The Incident Commander has a concern as it relates to data back up. Although we are usually only with out connectivity for a day or two it could be critical if we don't have access to our files.
Here is another question.
A hurricane hits and internet is knocked out for a week. Any company that uses Teams does not have access to their files in Teams? Unless they store them locally on their laptop?
What would be your workflow to ensure your Teams files are available to you even when there is no internet?
That's something you just have to consider when going cloud. Most people don't' house servers in their own officers etc. anymore so internet / point to point outage would be the same issue. Or same thing could be said with knocking out your power unless you had generators. If uptime is that critical it's some thing you have to consider, but technically Office 365 itself is pretty resilient across geo locaitons, it would be your local internet that would be the issue,
So that said, def something to consider, but yes, you would lose access to files unless you sync'ed but again, if everyone was synced even, and all worked local for a week, when everyone gets back online your going to have a sync conflict nightmare if you have many files that are collaborated on. it just depends on how workflow usually happens across your org with those files. If everyone is in their own file creation and people just read from those files it really won't be effected much, but if you have high collaboration on the same files, then you'll have a bunch of issues in that scenario.
That said, there is still SharePoint 2019 and on-prem OneDrive that can be utilized if you have generators and your own data-center to prevent internet pipe from taking you down as an option. You get the same sync etc. But everyone local would have access to the content.
So that said, def something to consider, but yes, you would lose access to files unless you sync'ed but again, if everyone was synced even, and all worked local for a week, when everyone gets back online your going to have a sync conflict nightmare if you have many files that are collaborated on. it just depends on how workflow usually happens across your org with those files. If everyone is in their own file creation and people just read from those files it really won't be effected much, but if you have high collaboration on the same files, then you'll have a bunch of issues in that scenario.
That said, there is still SharePoint 2019 and on-prem OneDrive that can be utilized if you have generators and your own data-center to prevent internet pipe from taking you down as an option. You get the same sync etc. But everyone local would have access to the content.
Got it !! There isn't any file collaboration with in the org. that would be happening in an off line environment. It is more of individual file access off line and then long term storage (a file cabinet if you will). That we are looking to plug.
- Then cloud with sync should work fine. The issue you will run into thou is teams itself will not work offline. So all this would be local file explorer sync access to files. Also watch the amount of files you would have in any synced library since they recommend not going over 300,000 total synced files with the OneDrive client, and when you break 100,000 files inside a folder you can no longer break inheritance for permissions or share that folder.
If you utilize root folders well and don't put everything in One folder you'll be ok, but just depends on your file volume, if it's really really high you might run into issues, so just something else to consider!