Feature snatcher Microsoft tweaks OneDrive Neither Apple nor Microsoft has a great history with their cloud graveyards consumer cloud file systems, tripping up users with frequent strategy lurches and abandoning features over the years. Microsoft made small amends this week: by adding, rather than taking away, a feature from OneDrive. OneDrive is the cloud file system …
Uninstall OneDrive in Windows 10
Select the Start button, type Programs in the search box, and then select Add or remove programs in the list of results.
Under Apps & features, find and select Microsoft OneDrive, and then select Uninstall. If you're prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.
The power of the internet search engine strikes once again
I don't like how consumer OneDrive comes with Win10, especially for people with lower technical skills (what is this? what do I do with it? why does it do this?).
But why would you want to not run OneDrive for Business? I have set up all of our users, with a folder in their ODFB account and change the location of 'My Documents' to that OD folder - so now all of my users have their files backed up.
You need a Microsoft account to use OneDrive, Skype, the Windows Store, Cortana etc.
Then uninstall the components accordingly. There might be more in-depth tutorials and tools out there to thoroughly remove the preinstalled Microsoft crud, disable telemetry etc.
What is the difference?
Easy peasy.
One is structured so that once something is put in it, you are guaranteed never to find it again while the other one is not. The latter is called OneDrive.
Just my own opinion based upon being forced to use it for the last five years.
> One is structured so that once something is put in it, you are guaranteed never to find it again while the other one is not. The latter is called OneDrive.
One is structured so that every time someone in the office needs to set up a new site, they do so in a slightly different way to all other sites that your organisation might have.
Also, the structured one is fully searchable: results come back 10 at a time though so paging through a couple of thousand hits is impossible.
I think OneDrive/OneDrive For Business competes with Dropbox & others as a cloud file server - with other features, such as version history and web preview & editing online.
SharePoint is more a traditional CMS that also stores files. The search function will include your OneDrive account in the search results.
In terms of similar products, what is more confusing to me is the difference between SharePoint team sites; Office 365 groups and Microsoft Teams! They all do their things a bit different, but it's hard to explain to end users what they should know.
OneDrive is the cloud file system used by PC, HoloLens and Xbox and Windows Phone and Android and Iphone and, via a web browser, Linux. There are two versions of Onedrive - the 'home' version and the 'business' version which is a layer on top of Sharepoint.
Which version of server on what client was this article referring to?
Bit rich to say that Apple's cloud storage is not well used, as almost every single iOS device is backed up to the cloud, seamlessly. It's one of the things that Apple do really well, replace or upgrade your phone and you walk out of the store with a new device that is also exactly your old phone.
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