Microsoft OneDrive for Business
- Milan Stanic
- Christine Sandella
OneDrive for Business is a cloud storage, file hosting service, provided by Seton Hall University, that allows users to safely store files and access them from any device. Students, faculty, administrators and staff at Seton Hall all have OneDrive for Business available to them. Anyone leaving the university will lose access to this drive when their individual account is deleted.
With OneDrive, you can sync files between your computer and the cloud, so you can get to your files from anywhere - your computer, your mobile device, and even through the OneDrive website at OneDrive.com. If you add, change, or delete a file or folder in your OneDrive folder, the file or folder is added, changed, or deleted on the OneDrive website and vice versa. You can work with your synced files directly in File Explorer and access your files even when you’re offline. Whenever you’re online, any changes that you or others make will sync automatically.
Benefits of using OneDrive for Business:
Each customer has 1TB of allotted space to use, which is equivalent to over one million Word documents.
All of your files are securely stored on Microsoft's cloud service.
In the event that your laptop gets lost/stolen or crashes, all of your important files are safely backed up and can be retrieved.
OneDrive for Business allows you to access your files from any device.
OneDrive for Business offers versioning of your files. If you update (or delete) a file and then realize you need to recover the previous version, you can "roll back" your documents in time.
OneDrive for Business allows you to easily share your files with anyone at Seton Hall. Instead of sending an email with a dozen file attachments, you can create and share a link to your OneDrive instead.