Many of us have used OneDrive for several years now. Now with the big boom in cloud adoption and the great success of Microsoft’s Office 365. Introducing the buzz around implementing OneDrive for Business. I for one have had my share of thoughts around this.
Sure its OneDrive and you just drop in files which sync to the cloud. However there are some things I have noticed in my first use of OneDrive for Business. That was I couldn’t just share a file to anyone online, which is what I was accustom to doing for the OneDrive.
Rather than me rehash what I found to be a good write up by Cory Peter. I will share with a link to his post titled Lessons Learned: Implementing OneDrive for Business. I hope you find it as informative as I have.
One thing I will share as I have preached about it for a while now. That is to understand the following key items:
- Network bandwidth considerations – What happens when all your users start taking large libraries offline? Can your network handle it?
- Drive encryption – Do you encrypt laptops with BitLocker? What happens when someone takes something offline? Is it still secure?
- Expect Common Sync Problems – Such as file size limits, folder length limits, invalid characters to name a few.
- Prepare your technical team – How to migrate files to Office 365, how to disable OneDrive if needed, how to track the version installed, how to configure OneDrive administrators
I underline the “prepare your technical team” portion here as IT mangers may have jumped into the cloud with not so much consideration of retooling of their staff to support the company; creating a gap in knowledge.
If he your staff is lacking the tooling needed; then what is the over all perception from the customers they need to support.
Be sure to check out Cory’s post: Lessons Learned: Implementing OneDrive for Business