The More I know, the more I don't know

David Johnson, CD

Pau Lo

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Ok thanks, I did wonder where Teams fitted into things with SharePoint and OneDrive. I presume there are clear objectives/usages of each making them each different.
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Ok thanks, I did wonder where Teams fitted into things with SharePoint and OneDrive. I presume there are clear objectives/usages of each making them each different.

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&gt;The emphasis being on documents. While you can certainly dump other files there, they dont really excel as a file server replacement.<br />
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could you provide a bit more info on this please?
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>The emphasis being on documents. While you can certainly dump other files there, they dont really excel as a file server replacement.

could you provide a bit more info on this please?

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Which of the office365 offerings would most closely resemble a cloud/SaaS based equivalent to a standard file server? And out of interest do you have the same sorts of control as you would over a standard file server e.g. shares/directory permissions, or can they amended by the end users themselves in the new alternative?
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Which of the office365 offerings would most closely resemble a cloud/SaaS based equivalent to a standard file server? And out of interest do you have the same sorts of control as you would over a standard file server e.g. shares/directory permissions, or can they amended by the end users themselves in the new alternative?

O365 alternative to file server

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.

Microsoft Office

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.