Comment by emayljames
4 hours ago
This will have a huge impact on a lot of organisations, for example those that have a communal SharePoint, or shared document page: files shared from ex-employees for critical documentation is going to break.
4 hours ago
This will have a huge impact on a lot of organisations, for example those that have a communal SharePoint, or shared document page: files shared from ex-employees for critical documentation is going to break.
Arguably, this situation is already broken right now. If an organization can't be bothered to use their tools (Sharepoint and the wider O365 ecosystem) correctly, it's entirely on them.
Organization employees use tools in a way that is practical for them. In microsoft case, it often means "incorrectly" and that is on Microsoft too.
AFAIK Sharepoint doesn't have these limitations. The idea is that in companies OneDrive should not be used for permanent stuff. Which is strange, to be granted, but after all using OneDrive for company documents basically means they are being shared out of some personal space that doesn't belong anywhere.
>shared out of some personal space that doesn't belong anywhere
Do you care explaining this better?
(moreover, to this day I still can't understand the difference between SharePoint and OneDrive -- if there's any)
Do you see "personal" and something that looks like your name in the path? That's your personal onedrive, like your home directory on a unix system.
See "sites" in the URL? That's a sharepoint site (AKA teams "shared" folder).
The former disappears (after a year) when the user license is removed. The latter is not associated with an individual user, so even if everyone in a team leaves the company it isn't just automatically removed.
Following was wrong and had been edited: The non-business personal onedrive was a box.com/dropbox/g-drive competitor. Microsoft moved its backend to Sharepoint at some time. (Onedrive for business used Sharepoint from the get-go). The integration of the personal drive, even though it's a descendent from the 'for business' product, is still quite unintuitive in my opinion.
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And if they haven't migrated the ownership of the OneDrive to another user's account in 12 months (such as cascading the drive up to the next manager to pull out whatever docs)... what kind of other bad IT and managerial practices are in use?
The worst managerial practice is to use OneDrive for company work purposes. For anybody else than the original creator these docs are nowhere to be found unless you know the shared URL.