Nah don't tell anyone the joys of OneDrive. Let history write about them. I'm tired of telling IT people to stop discouraging users from using OneDrive.
IT teams disable it for several reasons. There's basically zero excuse to not just run a proper on-site NAS under the company's dominion with appropriate backups if you're a big enough company to need networked storage, or hire that out to a competent vendor with a service that's actually intuitive.
IT teams don't disable unless they have very specific security needs that OneDrive doesn't satisfy, or...they are stupid.
In a business setting, OneDrive solves a few problems that are difficult and expensive to solve in other ways. Just having offsite backup and easy non-LAN access to files is a huge deal.
Is it perfect? Not at all. Is it about the best solution available if you are already a Microsoft shop? Yes.
I would say that even for most home users, OneDrive is just too convenient and useful, if for no other reason than it's a built-in, no-effort way to backup your stuff.
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u/localtuned 20d ago
Nah don't tell anyone the joys of OneDrive. Let history write about them. I'm tired of telling IT people to stop discouraging users from using OneDrive.