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onedrive, onedrive for business, onedrive app - Same name not the same product! every one of them with different UI, different settings and never works without

onedrive, onedrive for business, onedrive app - Same name not the same product! every one of them with different UI, different settings and never works without a failure. Try sharing a folder between team mates in office365. In dropbox it just appears to every team member. In office365 you need onedrive for busines (the regular onedrive that comes with Windows 10 won't show it) and then it appeas as a sharepoint folder the user. So confusing, So not working.

dingle_thunk 9y ago
Actually, that was only the case temporarily. For ...reasons... (I think it was the SkyDrive legal complaint?) the product rename happened before the client was technically consolidated. Since January, OneDrive and OneDrive for Business use the same client and (on o365/SP16FP1) the same infrastructure & API. If you're using the old ODFB client that was bundled with old versions of Office, you should upgrade. The old ODFB was terrible, and MS has been trying to get rid of it for years. (If you're using an old version of SharePoint 2013/2016 to host OneDrive locally, you should probably patch that too.) The new client is OK. But it's too late for me. MS have burnt me so many times with OneDrive/SkyDrive/Mesh/Windows Live/FolderSync at this point that I'm now an avowed Dropbox/Resilio user, and I won't be looking back for many years. A similar consolidation will be happening with the new Skype/Skype for Business clients. They broke my TV's skype camera to make that happen, and it's still not happening. I've switched to Hangouts/FB Messenger. The main reason these transitions are taking so long is: (a) all the on-premises customers create backwards compatibility hell (b) complete confusion around authentication and (c) they doesn't seem to be very good at delivering good software. The "OneDrive app" is a Windows 10 app store app, similar to the iOS and Android apps.
camus2 9y ago
> onedrive, onedrive for business, onedrive app - Same name not the same product! They did that with Visual Studio too. On Mac it's basically some IDE to develop Ios and Android apps, while on PC you're getting the actual IDE. And they do that with Skype too, where "Skype for business" is a completely different product that has barely anything to do with Skype.
- titanix2 9y ago
  And there is Visual Studio Code which is totally unrelated code editor available on multiples platforms which add more to the confusion.
_Codemonkeyism 9y ago
It's even worse with OneNote.
realusername 9y ago
"Onedrive for business" is the shittiest product you can get to sync files, it even manages to be worse than Onedrive. It has an absurdly long list of file extension it does not want to sync and does not work well at all with slow connections. Most of the time you get random conflicts and nothing works. USB Keys are more efficient than "onedrive for business".
tinus_hn 9y ago
The 'next generation sync client' is partly built in QT

dingle_thunk 9y ago

Actually, that was only the case temporarily. For ...reasons... (I think it was the SkyDrive legal complaint?) the product rename happened before the client was technically consolidated. Since January, OneDrive and OneDrive for Business use the same client and (on o365/SP16FP1) the same infrastructure & API. If you're using the old ODFB client that was bundled with old versions of Office, you should upgrade. The old ODFB was terrible, and MS has been trying to get rid of it for years. (If you're using an old version of SharePoint 2013/2016 to host OneDrive locally, you should probably patch that too.) The new client is OK. But it's too late for me. MS have burnt me so many times with OneDrive/SkyDrive/Mesh/Windows Live/FolderSync at this point that I'm now an avowed Dropbox/Resilio user, and I won't be looking back for many years. A similar consolidation will be happening with the new Skype/Skype for Business clients. They broke my TV's skype camera to make that happen, and it's still not happening. I've switched to Hangouts/FB Messenger. The main reason these transitions are taking so long is: (a) all the on-premises customers create backwards compatibility hell (b) complete confusion around authentication and (c) they doesn't seem to be very good at delivering good software. The "OneDrive app" is a Windows 10 app store app, similar to the iOS and Android apps.

camus2 9y ago

> onedrive, onedrive for business, onedrive app - Same name not the same product! They did that with Visual Studio too. On Mac it's basically some IDE to develop Ios and Android apps, while on PC you're getting the actual IDE. And they do that with Skype too, where "Skype for business" is a completely different product that has barely anything to do with Skype.

titanix2 9y ago
And there is Visual Studio Code which is totally unrelated code editor available on multiples platforms which add more to the confusion.

_Codemonkeyism 9y ago

It's even worse with OneNote.

realusername 9y ago

"Onedrive for business" is the shittiest product you can get to sync files, it even manages to be worse than Onedrive. It has an absurdly long list of file extension it does not want to sync and does not work well at all with slow connections. Most of the time you get random conflicts and nothing works. USB Keys are more efficient than "onedrive for business".

tinus_hn 9y ago

The 'next generation sync client' is partly built in QT