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Sharepoint vs OneDrive

Anonymous
2023-03-31T19:15:49+00:00

Hello,

For a solo-practice law firm that has only one Microsoft 365 user, and so far there have not been any opportunities to do any “co-authoring” on documents with clients or others outside the firm, is there any particular advantage to using SharePoint instead of OneDrive? (which is currently being use for file-storage)

Thank you very much

Craig

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-03-31T23:33:47+00:00

    Dear respected CraigCB,

    Good day! Thank you for posting to Microsoft Community. We are happy to help you.

    As per your description, SharePoint and OneDrive both are cloud-based services that help share and manage content. However, OneDrive is best place for private work documents that only you intend to see, and SharePoint is for use when you are working as part of a team or an organisation. You can share document files & permissions across several individuals.

    Collaboration with others

    -OneDrive is great for draft documents before moving to a team site or personal documents that no one else need to see.

    -SharePoint great for teams oof users working together and collaborating on document.

    For your reference:

    What's the difference between OneDrive and SharePoint

    Collaborating with Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive

    Appreciate your patience and understanding and thank you for your time and cooperation.

    Sincerely,

    Waqas Muhammad

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  1. Charles Kenyon 166.8K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2023-06-15T15:23:13+00:00

    Hi Craig,

    In a sole-practice I use both OneDrive and DropBox. Both allow me to share files and I can give a view-only link for them. I set up DropBox folders with edit access for clients so they can store material there. The same might be possible with OneDrive, but I have more storage available on DropBox so do it there. I do not use SharePoint.

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-06-15T19:19:03+00:00

    Thanks so much for your helpful response, Charles.

    Craig

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-04-03T12:37:47+00:00

    Thank you!!

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