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Replacing File Share with OneDrive
- Just a FYI, OneDrive is personal storage like “home folders” . For shared storage you should utilize SharePoint. This is not connected to any accounts in that way that OneDrive is! Every user using OneDrive use their account to access their storage. SharePoint is on a tenant basis and permissions there set who can access what.
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To use OneDrive for Business to host and manage your company's data, you can follow these steps:
Create a new OneDrive for Business account for the owner of the data. This account will be used to store and manage the company's data in OneDrive.
Install the OneDrive for Business client on the file-sharing server and configure it to sync the data to the owner's OneDrive account. You can use the instructions here to set up the OneDrive client: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/install-onedrive
Depending on the folder, grant permission or share the link to the appropriate end-users. To grant permission to a folder, you can use the instructions here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/share-files-and-folders#grant-permission-to-a-folder
To share a link to a file or folder: you can use the instructions here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/share-files-and-folders#share-a-link-to-a-file-or-folder
- Once all the data is moved to OneDrive, you can turn off the sync feature if you want to prevent data from being deleted on the file-sharing server or OneDrive when it is deleted on the other. To do this, you can follow the instructions here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/disable-sync
Alternatively, you can use the SharePoint Data Migration Tool to migrate your data from the file-sharing server to OneDrive. You can use the instructions here to download and install the tool: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointmigration/sharepoint-data-migration-tool
I hope this helps!