OneDrive itself should have expired years ago.
OneDrive data now has an expiry date
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Re: OneDrive data now has an expiry date
#62Don’t put your data in onedrive at all. We’ve experienced multiple cases of data loss which were definitely either implementation bugs or files simply being unreadable or lost.
Re: OneDrive data now has an expiry date
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
>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 autom…
Exactly this!
Re: OneDrive data now has an expiry date
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
>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 autom…
Odfb has always had a SharePoint backend. Used to be called MySites and carried no relation to the consumer product you’re confusing it with.
Re: OneDrive data now has an expiry date
#65One drive is an insanely poorly implemented solution to a problem nobody really had. For enterprise companies, ones I've worked in at least, they will auto sync the users folder /c/Users/(name) with one drive, but there is some weird alternative they have to set on the windows system to actually use a workspace for the user. So when I'm on site somewhere, and have no access to a network that's safe, I can't access fi…
I’ve seen a lot of people have issues with git, because this is going on in the background and they don’t realize it.
They’ll change branches, then OneDrive sees files are missing, so it starts pulling them back down. It makes a mess.
Any new hire we get, we need to make sure to explicitly tell them not to keep their code in a folder managed by OneDrive, but they never listen. They speak up about a month later, complaining about weird issues.
On my last laptop refresh I also had to manually enable the sync. It didn’t just happen. I knew if I used the local folders that would eventually stop working and things would get lost.
I’ve also seen a lot of confusion from people who save something to their desktop, and it’s not there… because they didn’t save it to their OneDrive desktop. This is always fun to explain.
OneDrive is also now our backup, but they only sync 3 folders from the home directory. If your work has you using other folders, good luck and enjoy your data loss. I setup a scheduled job to backup some of my other key files to OneDrive, but that was quite annoying. I’m sure I’m in the minority.
The enterprise enables all this stuff, but never actually tells anyone. They think it will “just work”, but it creates a confusing mess that every employee eventually has to figure out.
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
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.
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#67> Let me paint a familiar picture. Someone leaves your organisation, or a licence gets removed as part of a cost-saving exercise. That's a rather weird way of phrasing it. It almost suggested that you shouldn't audit your license needs. Other than this was always the case, it's hard to see why data stored in a close account wouldn't get deleted.
Also the deletion will kick in after 12 months > Day 1: licence removed or user deleted: The clock starts. The OneDrive account is now unlicensed and the retention countdown begins. > Day 60: read-only mode: No more edits. So yeah if you spend 12 months without realizing you might need the data of someone who left then I think that's on you
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Re: OneDrive data now has an expiry date
#68I'm really confused by the article. What the hell does unlicensed mean? Does unlicensed means free (as in free personal onedrive accounts)?
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#69If you start uploading data to your cloud without my clear consent, I already see a very big problem with your product.
If you even substitute the directories in my computer (a standard that was untouched for the last 20 years) in a way to force my stuff into your cloud, then there’s a much bigger problem.
Managers who approved this should be thrown out of the company because this is clearly how NOT to make a product.
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
Plus some WebDAV hacks via the MS Frontpage HTML editor! Truly great software engineering and design.
So it's MS products all the way down.
Somehow finding the Frontpage HTML editors down at the bottom makes it feel slightly better. At least it bring a fond memory while navigating our corporate Sharepoint horrorfest.