OneDrive for Business | Work Folders | |
Data storage location |
SharePoint Online (O365 Cloud)
or On-premise SharePoint 2013 |
On-premise Windows file server
Note: We are doing private testing to enable sync on SMB shares |
User experience | User access data stored in OneDrive for Business folder | User access data stored in Work Folders folder |
Sync status | User view sync status from the file/folder icon overlay, or go to the View sync problems link from the file explorer menu | User view sync status from the file explore status bar; or control panel Work Folders app |
User data | In the current release, only user personal site can by synced.Team share can be accessed online, but not through OD4B |
Support only user data share.
Team share is not supported currently. |
Other access | User can open web page for content access | User can use SMB access to the share if admin has configured |
Data encryption on client device | Leveraging BitLocker | Allow admin to enforce encryption policy on client, using Selective wipe encryption |
Device support | PCs, iOS, Android, Windows Phone | PCs, iOS, Android |
Collaboration | Allow user to share files via links | NA |
File limits | Focus more on office documents, some files types/characters in file/path name are not supported. | Any file types.However, sync will automatically excludes desktop.ini, thumbs.db and *.tmp which are machine specific or temp files. |
Admin experience | SharePoint management experience | File server management experience |
Data backup/restore | Managed by the O365 team, backup every 12 hours and is retained for 14 days. | Admin managed, use any VSS backup application, e.g. DPM. |
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