What is onedrive for business

OneDrive for business in simple term in the context of office 365.

1. What is OneDrive for Business Context of Office 365 Umang Shah Office 365 Program Manager – ISM 11-21-17

2. 1.It’s a Secured Business Storage for individual depending upon the version you have for office 365 or individual OneDrive Plan you will get up to 1TB per user. Share File security inside and outside. Access from anywhere any device encrypted both in-transit and at-rest using 256-bit AES encryption and is FIPS 140-2 Compliant. All SSL/TLS connections are established using 2048-bit keys. OneDrive Business is ISO 27001 certified.

3. 2. It’s a intelligent Sync Tool You can Sync your files to the cloud from local device and vice/versa. New Version allows you to selectively select files for offline on windows pc, iOS and android It can even Sync your SharePoint online and newer version of SharePoint on premise document library! All your Teams/Groups/SharePoint Documents can be sync via here. It has built in Search and Discovery engine that can help to identify your most recent/Relevant content.

4. 3. It’s a Office Online (shhhhh!!!) You can Create and edit Word, OneNote, PowerPoint, and Excel documents from a browser with Office Online Yes you don’t need any license if feature of Office online is all you need to create and Edit your Office documents and than Share and Sync!!! Real Time Co-authoring with your colleagues Generally people buy OneDrive for business in conjunction with office 365. but this feature itself is a great use case for small company who might not need full office 365 feature.

5. 4. It has Governance and Administration prospect you can implement DLP and IRM on your OneDrive for Business You can create usage reports on OneDrive for business You can setup eDiscovery and Alerts for your OneDrive for business You can implement Retention policies. You can implement regressive auditing policies as well.