

“We decided to go to them with a solution that will allow them to keep doing things the way they like to do them.” “Why change a good thing?” asks Suchanek, who is currently leading a rollout of the file-saving experience within Microsoft in North America. The only difference when they save their content via that familiar local drive file path is that their content also will automatically save to OneDrive for Business. Instead, Microsoft Digital worked with the Microsoft OneDrive Sync team to deploy a feature called Known Folder Move (also available to external customers) that makes it possible for employees to save documents, and pictures to their file folder system the same way they always have. “We thought about asking our employees to change their behavior, but then we asked ourselves, ‘Why? This is how our employees like to work,’” says Anne Marie Suchanek, a program manager on the team that manages OneDrive for Business internally in Microsoft Digital.

Now, the company wants its employees to store everything in the cloud on OneDrive for Business, where it’ll be more secure and easy to access, plus several other reasons that will be shared below.īut first, about changing the entrenched habit of clicking File, Save As, and then navigating to your favorite folder on drive C. Saving files locally, a habit that has stuck with a company that grew up around Windows and its system of using folders to store and organize files. Choose whether they get edit or read-only access.Within Microsoft, there are some entrenched employee habits that make the company what it is, like living in email, dressing casually, and project managing a solution for every problem.

Encryption of files for confidentiality is under development.If you share a sensitive file with an external contact, they can download it and forward it - so get a written agreement with the recipient that they will store it securely, that they won't share the document further and that they will delete it when no longer needed.We don't offer file encryption (but this is coming soon): Use OneDrive to share files with sensitive data securely, both internally and externally. You can share files with staff and students at Kent or external contacts.
