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> OneDrive truly is an abomination built on top of archaic Sharepoint. OneDrive _for business_ is built on Sharepoint. Onedrive ... erm ... not for business (?

> OneDrive truly is an abomination built on top of archaic Sharepoint. OneDrive _for business_ is built on Sharepoint. Onedrive ... erm ... not for business (?) is an entirely separate product, and they don't interoperate. Which is another baffling decision by Microsoft branding, since for regular users they make no distinction. It only becomes apparent when you discover you can't work with people outside the organisation.

rejectfinite 4y ago
>It only becomes apparent when you discover you can't work with people outside the organisation. You can share externally with Onedrive for business... It's a setting in Sharepoint admin... Once again, people here have no idea that most of their complaints with O365 is how management sets the security policy... not the platform itself... https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/turn-external-sharing-on-or-off https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/turn-external-s... :) You are right in that it used to be bad. Groove.exe... The old Onedrive for business client was a horror
- shellac 4y ago
  > You can share externally with Onedrive for business... Yes, but not (simply) with OneDrive, as the branding would suggest. Lesson learned, anyway.
- hnews_account_1 4y ago
  Sharepoint is complicated enough as a system that it requires its own certification programs. People should really learn to get competent IT and ask them questions instead of trying to figure it out without any relevant skills and then complaining. I get it, most of us have been told and have witnessed that we’re much above the average joe when it comes to computer interfaces but that’s because a lot of low level stuff is intuitive and not as complicated as this. Just swallow your pride and ask questions.
ilyt 4y ago
> OneDrive _for business_ is built on Sharepoint. Onedrive ... erm ... not for business (?) is an entirely separate product, and they don't interoperate. That is oh so weirdly common in MS ecosystem... like Skype for business being Lync and being significantly worse than "just" Skype (no idea what MS teams voice chat is based tho)
- magnetic-recoil 4y ago
  Teams is literally Skype for Business with a different skin, there's loads of traces of Skype left over where they haven't bothered to change the name.
  - nicoco 4y ago
    Such as the process name in Linux for instance.
  - jimmySixDOF 4y ago
    And now they will start to roll out Mesh which may or may not overlap with Teams (and Skype/Lynx behind that)
    - hestefisk 4y ago
      Mesh?
      - dtjb 4y ago
        Teams for AR/VR environments https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/mesh https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/mesh
- psychphysic 4y ago
  And teams for business...

rejectfinite 4y ago

>It only becomes apparent when you discover you can't work with people outside the organisation. You can share externally with Onedrive for business... It's a setting in Sharepoint admin... Once again, people here have no idea that most of their complaints with O365 is how management sets the security policy... not the platform itself... https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/turn-external-sharing-on-or-off https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/turn-external-s... :) You are right in that it used to be bad. Groove.exe... The old Onedrive for business client was a horror

shellac 4y ago
> You can share externally with Onedrive for business... Yes, but not (simply) with OneDrive, as the branding would suggest. Lesson learned, anyway.
hnews_account_1 4y ago
Sharepoint is complicated enough as a system that it requires its own certification programs. People should really learn to get competent IT and ask them questions instead of trying to figure it out without any relevant skills and then complaining. I get it, most of us have been told and have witnessed that we’re much above the average joe when it comes to computer interfaces but that’s because a lot of low level stuff is intuitive and not as complicated as this. Just swallow your pride and ask questions.

ilyt 4y ago

> OneDrive _for business_ is built on Sharepoint. Onedrive ... erm ... not for business (?) is an entirely separate product, and they don't interoperate. That is oh so weirdly common in MS ecosystem... like Skype for business being Lync and being significantly worse than "just" Skype (no idea what MS teams voice chat is based tho)

magnetic-recoil 4y ago
Teams is literally Skype for Business with a different skin, there's loads of traces of Skype left over where they haven't bothered to change the name.
- nicoco 4y ago
  Such as the process name in Linux for instance.
- jimmySixDOF 4y ago
  And now they will start to roll out Mesh which may or may not overlap with Teams (and Skype/Lynx behind that)
  - hestefisk 4y ago
    Mesh?
    - dtjb 4y ago
      Teams for AR/VR environments https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/mesh https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/mesh
psychphysic 4y ago
And teams for business...