What advice do you have for others considering Microsoft OneDrive?

I rate Microsoft OneDrive 10 out of 10. I would recommend it.

I give the solution a ten out of ten. We require three Microsoft Certified professionals to maintain the solution. I recommend the solution to others.

On a scale of one to ten, I would rate Microsoft OneDrive an eight out of ten.

My advice to others using this solution is don't back up your complete laptop, identify the folders you want to back up and back up only those. Otherwise, you will fill up your storage very quickly. It consumes a lot of data during syncs and other things, be judicious with those decisions. I rate Microsoft OneDrive a seven out of ten. I took off three-point for my overall scoring because the solution does not backup .PST files which are important for me.

So far, OneDrive has been very good for us. It is more than enough for a basic user and I can recommend it. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

If they fixed all the little things, it could be a great product. It pretty much is a great product already. The integrations are still good. Initially I was really amazed. But then I got to know its many bugs and glitches and I have to take a global view of the solution. I was the main point of implementation on this, so I have been involved with the OneDrive implementation from start to finish. I know everything that has been in the product, outside of the product, limitations, trends, how people are looking at OneDrive, how they are they using it — everything. For other people looking to OneDrive as a solution, I would suggest it if people already use other Microsoft products like Excel, PowerPoint, and Word. If I was making a recommendation for a friend of mine for personal use, the one advantage of OneDrive is they give you one terabyte of space. That is more than any of the other products of this type will give you. That is by default. If you pay for $10 a month — the normal Microsoft personal home license — you get OneDrive included and one terabyte of storage, which is a lot of space. With Google Drive, they do not give you nearly that much. I think Google Drive gives you 50 gigs of space. I do not remember exactly, but it was not that much, storage-wise. The other thing I would say is for professionals or big companies is that if they are using Excel, Word, PowerPoint, other Microsoft solutions a lot, then OneDrive makes perfect sense. It is integrated so well with typical office productivity tools that they should not even consider any other solution like Google Drive. This is the best-integrated solution for all of them. It makes it very easy to collaborate. Just look past the glitches until they fix all of them. Then it will clearly be the better solution. So, that is my advice. The negatives are there, yes. Microsoft tech support is terrible — everyone knows that. If you do have issues, then you might have to wait two or three weeks before it gets solved — and there are some nagging issues that have not been solved at all. Microsoft acknowledges a few things as just being a flaw in the product and they say they are going to have to fix it, but they do not seem to be in a rush to take care of anything. Before I used OneDrive, I have to admit that I was very anti-Microsoft. But right now, I do appreciate what they have been doing. In terms of collaboration, Google has always owned that area of the market. With Google Drive, Google Sheets, Google Slides and all, they own the online collaboration arena. But now Microsoft really is improving to such an extent that they could actually compete with Google and maybe they will end up surpassing them. They have an advantage in that Excel and Word and PowerPoint are just more powerful and mature than whatever Google has right now. If you have some patience and you can stomach through the initial growing pains of the Microsoft bugs, then I would certainly recommend this product. I would actually suggest that this should be the product that everyone should use for sharing and collaboration. It is hard to love OneDrive right now. You will probably like it more than you love it. If you call me in a year's time, I might just have to say that everything in OneDrive is great now. But right now, on a scale of one to ten (where one is the worst and ten is the best), I would rate it a six-point-five out of ten. It really is not even a seven yet just because of the overall experience and the missing features.

I think a lot of it comes down to the change management aspect of it, rather than the actual solution. Most of the IT solutions are pretty good in their own way. They might not be completely comparable. That is what we're finding, that it's more about getting people to adopt a product. I'd rate this solution a six out of 10.

The advice I would give people considering OneDrive starts with the fact that everybody can use it. If you are a company and you use it in conjunction with teams, it is a great way to share files. It is a good thing to have if I am away from my desktop and in a hotel where I would not want to bring all that data with me. If I am working on a project I can just log on and locate a shared file by going on OneDrive and accessing the latest version of a project. On a scale from one to ten (where one is the worst and ten is the best), I would rate Microsoft OneDrive as an eight or nine out of ten. I really could not say ten because I do have that little history of issues. I am going to say eight-of-ten because to me to even get a nine it has to be so intuitive anybody could work with it and not experience problems. I think I can only do what I can do because I am an experienced user. If I was the new user in a company I might feel a bit more lost just being thrown into using it.

My advice to someone looking to use OneDrive depends on what your intention is in using it. If it is to be used for cloud storage and collaboration, it is about as fair a solution as any other cloud storage like Dropbox. If you are using it strictly for your local machines — as a sole backup — it is not a good idea. I think it is typical of a Microsoft product. It is meant to be plug-and-play, and I think it used to be. It is not going to be any worse or better than any other product of this type as far as the user's ability to navigate the program. Before you just set it and forgot it was there and it took care of all your stuff. But I think there are some challenges in the recent builds that make it function differently than expected and differently, certainly, than it used to function. I believe the design of it was a lot cleaner back then too when there was less that you could stumble through. On a scale of one to ten (where one is the worst and ten is the best), I would rate Microsoft OneDrive as an eight, I guess. Eight-out-of-ten.

I don't know if my company has a business relationship with Microsoft of not. I'm not sure which version of the solution I'm using. It's likely the most recent, as it's a cloud-based solution. It's pretty universal, it's not hard to work with. Once you put something in the OneDrive, it is part of the office environment. We would be able to see each other's subfiles, so to speak. That makes it transparent and easy to share, but it also means you have to be cautious with who you share with. I'm familiar with it now, and really like working with it. I'll continue to work with it whether that's at home or through school as I've grown to understand the product pretty well. I'd rate the solution ten out of ten.

I would definitely recommend Microsoft OneDrive, especially if you are an enterprise. The support is fantastic, and it's something that they've been doing for years. It's an all-round fantastic product, especially if you are an organization that is based on Microsoft stage products. So it's just an extension of whatever you are doing, like everything syncs. I would rate Microsoft OneDrive an eight out of ten. It's been a very useful tool for work and personal use.

I would recommend it. The integration with Office 365 makes it much easier for anybody to add the capabilities of file storage. For example, if you are sending a very big file into OneDrive, you don't have to send it as an attachment. I think that's quite useful. Everything is quite automated, so you don't really have to worry. I would rate it an eight out of ten.

My advice for anybody who is implementing OneDrive is to make sure that the infrastructure is solid. Microsoft products require a good core infrastructure to get the best performance and potential for usage. If you don't have a good infrastructure then you will get complaints from the users, so it is better to solve the problem as soon as possible. Overall, we are quite happy with it and don't have any complaints. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

We're just a customer; we simply use the product. We don't have a business relationship with Microsoft. We're using multiple Microsoft apps, including Office 365, which comes with One Drive, SharePoint, Teams, and other apps. We're using the latest version of the solution. It's a good solution. Organizations new to the solution won't have to do much prep work before diving into it. I'd rate the solution nine out of ten.

If you're a Microsoft customer and you use Office 365, it works and integrates seamlessly. So most people out there use Microsoft Office products and it works hand in hand. I would rate OneDrive an eight out of ten.