OneDrive

Key Highlights

• A simple sharing experience across Office 365 and cleaner UI
• See who viewed shared files in OneDrive
• Securely share files with people outside your organization without an account
• Web versions of Office open even the largest files faster than ever
• Co-authoring support in the desktop version of Excel for Office 2016
• New file thumbnails and previews
• Deeper integration with Microsoft Teams

Features in Focus

A simple sharing experience across Office 365.  The new sharing experience, powered by OneDrive, provides a consistent way to share files, to control who has access, and to clearly communicate and enforce security policies.

New file thumbnails and previews, as well as co-authoring support in the desktop version of Excel for Office 2016.

Securely share files with people outside your organization without an account.  External collaborators can securely access files with a simple email-based identity verification process. We also provide administrators with controls over secure external sharing.

Files On-Demand – Rolling out from 17th October.
*requires the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update.
Allows you to preview over 270+ different files types without having to have that application installed.

Updates to our mobile client – To make our mobile client even easier to use, we are bringing a completely new ux to our mobile apps. This will make it easier to access, share and manage your files on the go.

Share seamlessly with new, universal sharing in Office, Windows and Mac – With our updates to the sharing UI we have standardized sharing – unified functionality coming to Office 2016 in a few months.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Support

Files Restore – Will enable self-service recovery from disastrous events such as mass deletes, corruption, and other data loss scenarios.

Support for On-Prem customers with Android App – We are happy to announce we fully support our OneDrive On-Premise customers on the Android platforms.

Zip File Support – Now open zip files in the web view to see what’s inside and pick and choose the files you would like to extract.

Now supports # and % now supported in file names (launched in Dentsu in on 10th October).

Integration of sync client into Mac Office – The OneDrive client will now be installed as part of the Office for Mac installation process.

Full support for workflows via Microsoft Flow in OneDrive rolled out by end of the year.

Self Service Migration Toolkit – We are releasing a migration toolkit for self-service users looking to migrate from share drives or other cloud-based services to OneDrive on their own.

Support for the OneDrive sync client – We released early this year in SharePoint 2019.

Resources

• OneDrive – Past, Present, and Future