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Showing posts with label OneDrive. Show all posts

Friday, November 9, 2018

11/09/2018 07:30:00 PM

Microsoft: These New Onedrive Features on Ios, Android, Web, Are Headed Your Way

OneDrive gets new sharing prompts and fields to add metadata to scans.


Microsoft this month will roll out new features for the iOS and Android OneDrive cloud file-storage app, as well as OneDrive on the web.

The update aims to improve productivity by helping OneDrive users bring order to scans of handwritten meeting notes, and make work documents easier to share.

The OneDrive mobile app will get a simple way to add custom metadata to any scans or images taken from a mobile device.

Users would start a scan from a Library the file should go into. After taking the scan, metadata fields appear and can be filled in on the go.

Once meeting notes have been scanned, OneDrive will then prompt the user to share the scan with other people at the meeting.

The time-saving feature relies on Microsoft Graph's connections between files, scans and meetings to know which contacts to share the scan with. It will also be available on iOS and Android in November.

OneDrive on the web meanwhile will be getting a refreshed Recent view. Microsoft promises it will be "simple, faster and more satisfying to use".

The improved Recent view will come to Office files first, while other file types will be improved over time. It will roll out over the next few months.

Manage Access, the OneDrive feature for controlling who has access to files and folders, is also being updated to make it easier for users to add and remove people on links limited to specific people.

The update will also make it clear who is using a particular link. That's rolling out through November and December.

Microsoft has also announced that on February 1 next year it will drop support for OneDrive desktop on Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10 and Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.

Microsoft says it's a business decision and notes that Apple has already dropped mainline support for both versions of OS X.

OneDrive on affected versions will still work, but Microsoft won't be testing their functionality and bugs won't be fixed. It will also block OneDrive installations on these versions of OS X after the cut-off date.

Users are urged to upgrade to Mac OS X Sierra 10.12 or later, but Microsoft recommends upgrading to the macOS Mojave 10.14.

Microsoft is rolling out intelligent meeting note-sharing with OneDrive on Android, left, and a common sharing dialog in Word Mobile, right.

Tuesday, February 13, 2018

2/13/2018 07:37:00 PM

Microsoft takes aim at Google, Box, Dropbox with OneDrive switch offer

Microsoft has a new OneDrive-for-Business compete for the offer for organizations which currently use some of its rivals' cloud storage services.



Microsoft is taking aim at several of its cloud-storage competitors with a new OneDrive compete for the offer.

Starting today, February 6, Microsoft is enabling businesses with 500 users or more to get OneDrive for Business for free for the duration of their contracts with Google, Box, or Dropbox. Qualified users -- who must be new and not existing OneDrive for Business/Office 365 customers -- have until June 30 to take advantage of the deal.

Microsoft will allow qualified customers to use OneDrive for Business freely for up to three years, depending on the duration of their existing contracts with the three aforementioned rivals. Just to be clear, Microsoft won't compensate potential customers for what they're spending on rival storage services; Microsoft is just making OneDrive for Business available. And users will get the standalone service version of OneDrive for Business, which can be integrated with the rest of Office 365, which won't be free.

A bit of fine print worth noting: "Enterprise Agreement/Enterprise Agreement Subscription (EA/EAS), will receive a free trial for the remaining term of their Box, Dropbox, or Google contract. Customers with EA/EAS can add the Microsoft product to their EA/EAS at no charge unless and until the remaining term of the Box, Dropbox, or Google contract is less than the term of the EA/EAS, at which point the cost of the Microsoft product will be pro-rated over the term of the EA/EAS."

Microsoft is touting OneDrive for Business' cost, user interface, personalized search, security, and integration with Office 365 as competitive advantages. Microsoft officials said there are currently more than 350,000 organizations using OneDrive. Officials also note that by using a cloud-storage service that is pre-integrated with other Microsoft services, customers who go with OneDrive will have fewer vendors to manage.

Microsoft isn't backing off from its partnering strategy with this compete for the offer, officials said. Microsoft will continue to work with Box for situations where customers want Box's cloud storage and content-management services on Azure. Nor is Microsoft backing away from its integration deal with Dropbox around Office 365 and Teams.




Sunday, July 23, 2017

7/23/2017 07:23:00 PM

Microsoft conveys Version History support to all files in OneDrive

Microsoft is including adaptation history bolster for each of the OneDrive documents, yet has no new ETA for its guaranteed OneDrive differential synchronize capacity.



Microsoft is beginning to take off a standout amongst the most asked for OneDrive distributed storage highlights: Version History bolster for a wide range of records, not simply Office documents. 

The Version History bolster for each of the OneDrive records will be accessible to every one of the OneDrive.com clients by this late spring, as indicated by a Microsoft July 19 blog entry. 

Right now, OneDrive gives form history to Office documents as it were. This enables clients to rehabilitate old parts of a perhaps debased or incidentally altered archive or record. 

In any case, not long from now, this component will likewise take a shot at different sorts of records, as PDFs, CAD documents, photographs, and recordings. This implies clients will have the capacity to reestablish or download a decent duplicate of their documents for 30 days. 

Sorry to learn a speedy end to that vibe great minute, yet the OneDrive news isn't all positive today. 

Another best asked for include for OneDrive - differential match up - has missed its guaranteed due date and has no fresh introduction target. 

Microsoft's chief of program administration for OneDrive and SharePoint, Omar Shahine, recognized today on Twitter that full differential match up didn't and won't arrive when guaranteed on the most recent OneDrive guide. 

I blogged in February this year that Microsoft had submitted on a current OneDrive guide to giving differential match up before the second's over logbook quarter of 2017. 

In any case, because of an inquiry from @BrokenCanoe today on Twitter about the whereabouts of that element, Shahine stated, "As yet dealing with it. That guide was a blunder." 

I approached Shahine for a report on the planning and was told "our most recent is on User Voice." In 2014, Microsoft authorities said differential match up for OneDrive was a "reasoning about it" highlight. In any case, there's been no refresh there since concerning when and in the event that it may be conveyed. 

Shahine noted on Twitter today that Microsoft has differential match up for Office records at present. Differential match up is the capacity to synchronize just the parts of records that had changed, not whole documents.