What is OneDrive? How does it work?

OneDrive is online file storage. Instead of relying on a physical server in the third floor closet, our files now live in the cloud and we access them via the Internet.

It’s not really too much different from our old shared drive. Just like the old shared drive, we have folders that multiple people have access to, and documents that multiple people can be working on at the same time. The main difference is just exactly where the files are stored.

Since the files are stored on the internet, accessing them requires internet connection (although you can also cache them locally to work offline). But this also means that wherever you have internet, you can get to your documents, even if you’re not at your work computer and outside this building.

If you want to go deeper into documentation, check out these links: Teams/OneDrive Video Tutorials