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No. I never experienced any delay in accessing files from Cloud / OneDrive.<br />
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You can also use OneDrive desktop client to sync your local files in the cloud. Drag and Drop files in the local OneDrive folder and they will be synced.<br />
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Hope this helps.<br />
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--Raghav.
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No. I never experienced any delay in accessing files from Cloud / OneDrive.

You can also use OneDrive desktop client to sync your local files in the cloud. Drag and Drop files in the local OneDrive folder and they will be synced.

Hope this helps.

--Raghav.

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I'm the IT manager for a company of 50.. 25 staff in a head office and the 25 dispersed throughout 3 branch offices as well as a few work-from-home folks.<br />
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Our current setup is that we serve remote users either via Remote Desktop Server or mapped drives over a VPN. We have Exchange 2007 on-premise in SBS 2008.<br />
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We are replacing our server, and going with new version of Office 365. Plan to host email at Microsoft 365 as well our branch office users would access &nbsp;Office documents in the Office 365 Cloud (Sharepoint/OneDrive).<br />
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Question. Is opening Office Documents really slow when stored on Microsoft servers? Maybe I should continue with Remote Desktop Server for my remote users?
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I'm the IT manager for a company of 50.. 25 staff in a head office and the 25 dispersed throughout 3 branch offices as well as a few work-from-home folks.

Our current setup is that we serve remote users either via Remote Desktop Server or mapped drives over a VPN. We have Exchange 2007 on-premise in SBS 2008.

We are replacing our server, and going with new version of Office 365. Plan to host email at Microsoft 365 as well our branch office users would access  Office documents in the Office 365 Cloud (Sharepoint/OneDrive).

Question. Is opening Office Documents really slow when stored on Microsoft servers? Maybe I should continue with Remote Desktop Server for my remote users?

Office 365 vs. In-House

Exchange is the server side of a collaborative application product that is part of the Microsoft Server infrastructure. Exchange's major features include email, calendaring, contacts and tasks, support for mobile and web-based access to information, and support for data storage.

Exchange

Office 365 is a group of software plus services subscriptions that provides productivity software and related services to its subscribers. Office 365 allows the use of Microsoft Office apps on Windows and OS X, provides storage space on Microsoft's cloud storage service OneDrive, and grants 60 Skype minutes per month. Office 365 includes e-mail and social networking services through hosted versions of Exchange Server, Skype for Business Server, SharePoint and Office Online, integration with Yammer, as well as access to the Office software. All of Office 365's components can be managed and configured through an online portal; users can be added manually, imported from a CSV file, or Office 365 can be set up for single sign-on with a local Active Directory using Active Directory Federation Services.

Microsoft 365

A virtual private network (VPN) is a network that uses a public telecommunication infrastructure, such as the Internet, to provide remote offices or travelling users access to a central organizational network securely. VPNs encapsulate data transfers using secure cryptographic methods and other security mechanisms to ensure that only authorized users can access the network and that the data cannot be intercepted.

Microsoft Office is an integrated suite of applications that includes Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Visio and InfoPath, along with a number of tools to assist in making the individual components work together. Coding within and between the projects is done in Visual Basic for Applications, known as VBA.