Our company uses OneDrive, where to store global folders that are not tied to any specific user?

Question

Hi there

Our company uses OneDrive, where to store global folders that are not tied to any specific user?
We do not want to tie these global folders to be created within an individual's account, as individuals may leave and their AD account will be disabled.

(Global folder means folders that are accessible by all users with our AD account).

Thank you.

Answer 1

@frob-0826

You may refer to michev’s reply, OneDrive is your own personal storage, and SharePoint is a collaborative cloud storage. In OneDrive for Business, to create a folder there must be a user to do this action, and then this folder is bound to this user account.

But, you could add multiple owners for the shared folder. Maybe, you could have a look following steps.

• Sign into onedrive.com with your account, select Create shared library on left pane. You could set up the Privacy option as needed, click Create.
• In the Members box, add the names or email addresses of the people you want to include as members.
• Select Go to site in the upper-right corner to go to the new site you just created. And select the Group membership option in the upper-right to change the permissions of members to Member or Owner or Remove from group.

For more details steps, you could refer to “Create a new shared library from OneDrive for work or school”.

Hope the information could be helpful to you.

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Answer 2

Use SharePoint Online instead, OneDrive (and ODFB) is mainly for personal use.

Answer 3

Well, SharePoint is our intranet and is not shared with external users.
That is kinda funny that OneDrive does not have this functionality.

Thank you both for your help and for taking the time!