When you have low bandwidth sites, but still wish to use the Office 365 version (Click to Run) of Office 2013, you don’t want your users to individually download the whole package over a 768k line.
The best method is using System Center Configuration Manager or another form of local distribution like branch caching on a local machine in the remote location. But sometimes those are not available, you’ll have to resort to good old DVD’s.
Managing permissions on your user’s Onedrive for Business storage is a chore, there is no direct interface to do this in bulk, nor is the interface very easy to find. Plenty of articles explain how to do this for ONE user through the GUI, but few explain how to do this in bulk for several users at once.
And when you’re migrating, for example, hundreds or thousands of homedirectories to Onedrive For Business, you’ll want to automate setting permissions on all these users in bulk.
Since the inception of the OneDriveMapper script, I’ve often been asked if there is a way to pre-provision Onedrive for Business storage for users.
When a user signs into Office 365 for the first time and clicks Onedrive, their Onedrive for Business storage will be allocated and initialized, before that, it is not possible to map their OneDrive storage, or sometimes more importantly: to migrate data to it.
As a good consultant or IT admin, you don’t want to force your users to do this before they can map their drive or before you migrate their data because you like to automate things, repetitive or manual process tend to be unreliable.
Did you know Office 365 audits almost everything you and your users do? In fact, they even audit access by datacenter admins.
This is all logged to the so called Unified Auditlog. You can search this log from your browser in the Office 365 Activity Report, or, as some may prefer, using Powershell.
When you’re considering a move to Office 365, there are many things you need to take into account. Mail migration strategy, voice, DNS configuration, Sharepoint Online, and more and more: Onedrive for Business.
Now that OneDrive for Business allows unlimited cloud storage for your Office 365 users, there is no real reason left to leave their homedirectories on your expensive local storage. The choice is simple, but getting their data to Onedrive for Business is not.