Documents saved to a SharePoint library or in a Teams channel are automatically shared with others in the firm if they were given permissions when the library or channel was created. The pre-cloud equivalent of OneDrive is your C: drive (local) and SharePoint is the equivalent to a file server (sometimes your Y: or X: drive) where all shared files for the firm are stored. In Microsoft parlance, OneDrive is the “me” drive and SharePoint is the “we” drive. People you share documents with, even if they do not have Microsoft Office or a MS 365 subscription, can edit or comment on documents in their browser. If your OneDrive account is part of a MS 365 subscription you can also open MS Office documents and edit them in the browser or the installed software. MS OneDrive also maintains versions of MS Office documents. There are many permission settings you can enable. Like other file cloud storage services, you can share links to files and folders with other people. For most law firms using business versions of the MS 365 suite (Apps, Basic, Standard, Premium), OneDrive comes with the subscription and gives each user 1TB of cloud storage.

Microsoft OneDrive comes with Microsoft 365 subscriptions and is also available on its own. What can you do with OneDrive, what are the pros and cons, what is the difference between it and SharePoint? Read on! What is OneDrive?

For firms using Microsoft 365 you already have an online document storage tool built in – MS OneDrive. Box, Dropbox, ShareFile, and Google Drive are but a few of the popular products. There are many ways to store and share documents online.

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