Microsoft OneDrive

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Data storage and accessibility wherever you are… If there’s one service that many of us need, it’s this one. Whether it is to show photos from the last vacations to friends or family members but also to have access to all the resources that concern our company or a project we are working on when we are out and about, there is no shortage of cases where we would like and need to have information or show media files from our smartphone, tablet or laptop.

Fortunately, today we have online storage services available to us, making our data accessible anywhere as long as we have internet access. These services are known as the Cloud (see our article The Cloud for more information). To benefit from the power of the Cloud, various products exist. Microsoft OneDrive is one of them…

As you can see, Microsoft OneDrive is a secure online storage service, included in some Office 365 software suite licenses. If you wish, you can also subscribe to OneDrive’s services only. The storage space is accessible on all your devices through a web interface, as well as a Windows and macOS application for your computer or Android and iOS compatible versions for your mobile devices.

It’s the principle of cloud storage, OneDrive allows you to access your files anytime, share and edit them wherever you need them. These changes are effective instantly on all the devices with which you use the service. In addition, for those who benefit from the service through an Office 365 subscription, you can also access content stored on your OneDrive space without necessarily being connected to the Internet. Any changes you make offline are loaded as soon as an internet connection is available. The advantage of the service is also that you can share documents without having to send them directly to your recipients. Sending a simple link by SMS or email allows you to provide access to the documents you want to share and the service also allows you to choose an expiration date so that these files are not accessible indefinitely to anyone who owns or intercepts the link.

OneDrive also allows you to store and view documents produced and shared in Office 365, including via Microsoft Teams (see our Microsoft Teams article for more information), on all its devices, including mobile devices thanks to the dedicated application. These features require an Office 365 subscription. The service also gives you the ability to scan documents via your smartphone such as receipts, business cards or any other paper document to save and retrieve them on all devices connected to OneDrive.

As you know, our hardware is neither eternal nor invulnerable. OneDrive makes it possible to recover files from accidental deletions, hardware failure or cyber attacks. The service uses the SSL encryption protocol to guarantee the security of the data and files you entrust to it.