Background:

  • At work we use MS Office, because who doesn’t. We used to have a central file server with lots of well sorted directories.
  • Then Corporate decided to ditch that, everything must move into OneDrive so there’s always a Data Owner.
  • The local boss had to move everything from the network share into his own OneDrive, and then share, with each of us, the folders that were relevant to each of us.
  • This sounds like distributed storage, which is probably smart in some way.

In reality, it’s shit. Everything is now a link to “corporateName.sharepoint.com” in the browser, and it’s a hassle to find that in the file explorer. SOmeone just shared a folder with me. I see it in my browser. How do I get it from the browser into a normal folder view? Should I forget about on-disk storage; is everything today just a browser bookmark?

Worse, I have no idea what’s where. Some people share some stuff and somehow it ends up in my OneDrive, but what’s the context of it?

This seems so wrong to me. Am I just not “getting” it??

  • Andi@feddit.ukEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Wait until Corporate sees the new data storage rates for 365 for next year and their potential new bill for cloud storage.

    They’ll be spinning up those server room file servers in no time.

      • Andi@feddit.ukEnglish
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        11 months ago

        Yes, our 365 team got estimates from Microsoft about 3 weeks ago.

        If we don’t cull our usage before next August, our renewal will be £1m more than this year… That’s for 70,000 accounts and a whole lotta SharePoint.

        • Nankeru@reddthat.com
          1·
          1 year ago

          May I ask how much additional storage you have for the Tenant, roughly? What is the price increase in percentage for the additional storage?

  • jmd_akbar@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    How do I get it from the browser into a normal folder view?

    There’s a setting which the sharepoint admins can set which allows Windows Explorer view.

    To access https://sharepoint.company.com/team_a what you’ll do is open windows Explorer and navigate to “\\sharepoint.company.com\team_a” (starts with double back slash, without the quotes)… You can even map it as a network drive on your system, so you can have an X: drive which maps to that same location and you can use it like a normal shared drive…

    Edit: I take back my comment. This method doesn’t work anymore, except for pre-SharePoint 2019 on-prem environments…