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Onedrive for Biz Roadmap?
Would be great if we could see some roadmap documentation around the OFB product beyond the Q2 which has been communicated fairly broadly. Thanks! -S
Definitely. We're leveraging OFB for our user personal storage, but I'm just kinda blown away that there's no multi-user shared storage product offering to compete with Box and the like, so ShareFile it is. Talon and StorSimple would work but that's just replacing our storage systems, not extending them with offline sync.
Sure, we could move all that stuff into SharePoint and that's where it'd be best kept, but we don't have the time/resources to manage a project like that - SharePoint will be EOL by the time we even got that off the ground.
Sure, we could move all that stuff into SharePoint and that's where it'd be best kept, but we don't have the time/resources to manage a project like that - SharePoint will be EOL by the time we even got that off the ground.
- omarshahine
Microsoft
1. We are working on support for "Shared Folder" sync so you have similar capabilities to OneDrive, Box, Dropbox etc
2. For formal collaboration with groups of people, Office 365 Groups provisions storage for you (in the form of a SharePoint Site with a Document Library).
Both #1 and #2 will be supported via sync by end of year.
- Item #1 Awesome !!! Omar you bring great news!
(... support for "Shared Folder" sync so you have similar capabilities to OneDrive, Box, Dropbox etc ... supported via sync by end of year.)
- We absolutely need shared file storage in OFB. We are not going to migrate to SharePoint ... currently using Dropbox.
So ... OFB roadmap predicts shared file storage by end of 2016 ? - Office 365 Groups is the 'multi-user' version of OneDrive, the natural step up from your personal storage to your teams storage.
- Sorry, but Office 365 Groups is too slow and awkward for our use. Need robust and streamlined with serious capacity for several users.
- Can you give an example of how a group is slow and awkward ? In my organisation groups are very well recieved, and it's very natural to have defined a list of users once and for this to be common across multiple services.
