OneDrive for business in simple term in the context of office 365.

1. What is OneDrive for
Business Context of
Office 365
Umang Shah
Office 365 Program Manager – ISM
11-21-17

2. 1.It’s a Secured
Business
Storage for
individual
• depending upon the version you
have for office 365 or individual
OneDrive Plan you will get up to
1TB per user.
• Share File security inside and
outside. Access from anywhere
any device
• encrypted both in-transit and
at-rest using 256-bit AES
encryption and is FIPS 140-2
Compliant. All SSL/TLS
connections are established
using 2048-bit keys. OneDrive
Business is ISO 27001 certified.

3. 2. It’s a
intelligent Sync
Tool
• You can Sync your files to the
cloud from local device and
vice/versa.
• New Version allows you to
selectively select files for offline
on windows pc, iOS and android
• It can even Sync your
SharePoint online and newer
version of SharePoint on
premise document library! All
your Teams/Groups/SharePoint
Documents can be sync via
here.
• It has built in Search and
Discovery engine that can help
to identify your most
recent/Relevant content.

4. 3. It’s a Office
Online
(shhhhh!!!)
• You can Create and edit Word,
OneNote, PowerPoint, and Excel
documents from a browser with
Office Online
• Yes you don’t need any license if
feature of Office online is all you need
to create and Edit your Office
documents and than Share and
Sync!!!
• Real Time Co-authoring with your
colleagues
• Generally people buy OneDrive for
business in conjunction with office
365. but this feature itself is a great
use case for small company who
might not need full office 365 feature.

5. 4. It has
Governance
and
Administration
prospect
• you can implement DLP and
IRM on your OneDrive for
Business
• You can create usage reports on
OneDrive for business
• You can setup eDiscovery and
Alerts for your OneDrive for
business
• You can implement Retention
policies.
• You can implement regressive
auditing policies as well.