OneDrive for Business

OneDrive for Business has improved synchronization, compliance, and more through 2015, adding features for Office 365 customers and enterprises using SharePoint Server 2016. OneDrive for Business is a set of technology and licensing plans for hosted file storage and sharing, and a client-side synchronization engine that works on multiple platforms to access these stored files. OneDrive for Business promises better collaboration and simpler connectivity than Windows file shares and better organizational control and monitoring than consumer file-sharing services. It is currently not as reliable or capable as Microsoft’s own consumer OneDrive service and other consumer or commercial competitors, but the company has closed some of the most important gaps for Office 365 customers during 2015.

This report describes the current state and roadmap of Microsoft’s OneDrive for Business Web file-sharing technology, which is distinct from the OneDrive technology offered to consumers. (See the sidebar “Consumer OneDrive“.)