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PlutoniumAcid Sep 22, 2023

Isn't OneDrive/Sharepiont the exact OPPOSITE of a shared drive?

Isn't OneDrive/Sharepiont the exact OPPOSITE of a shared drive? - Lemmy.world

Background: - At work we use MS Office, because who doesn’t. We used to have a central file server with lots of well sorted directories. - Then Corporate decided to ditch that, everything must move into OneDrive so there’s always a Data Owner. - The local boss had to move everything from the network share into his own OneDrive, and then share, with each of us, the folders that were relevant to each of us. - This sounds like distributed storage, which is probably smart in some way. In reality, it’s shit. Everything is now a link to “corporateName.sharepoint.com [http://corporateName.sharepoint.com]” in the browser, and it’s a hassle to find that in the file explorer. Worse, I have no idea what’s where. Some people share some stuff and somehow it ends up in my OneDrive, but what’s the context of it? This seems so wrong to me. Am I just not “getting” it??

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SGG Sep 22, 2023

Your boss did this a stupid way. They should have created a SharePoint site, maybe a few extra document libraries within that site, and have the files in there. Then added people as members to the site, maybe lock down a few of the document libraries/folders as required to specific people.

Then for ease of use people can open the libraries and click the sync button. Although if you have too many it’ll slow down/break.

OneDrive/SharePoint is not a drop in replacement for a file server, and those honestly still find their use, but a lot of places with a bit of re-structuring can work just as well if not better through SharePoint . Especially if they put in the effort to start using other SharePoint features.

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PlutoniumAcid Sep 22, 2023

Can I view sharepoint in the file explorer, or is that only in the browser?

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eezeebee Sep 22, 2023

You could with the old SharePoint, but they took that feature away. The way around it is to open the SharePoint link in Edge, then bottom left “Return to classic SharePoint”, then Edge settings > Launch in Internet Explorer mode. After that you should now have a SP tab called library (you may need to click around the SP ribbon for it to appear) and in that tab should be “Open in File Explorer”.

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PlutoniumAcid

I tried this and failed: I don’t see any controls in the bottom left, also no “Return to classic SharePoint” elsewhere. I guess the admins have turned that off.

I did find an option “Add lnk to OneDrive” which I clicked. Nothing happened in the browser, but I now do see that folder in Windows Explorer > OneDrive. So, yay, that works.

Now I just have this rando folder at the top level of my OneDrive. I have moved into a subfolder that makes sense to me, and I hope that doesn’t break anything.