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OneDrive Auto Save Tab for Business Accounts
Could you please provide an Auto Save tab for OneDrive business accounts. I have a PC that is my business only PC, but I do not get the Auto Save tab, like I do with a personal account. I do not want to save anything on my local drive!
82 votes -
Enterprise level management of OneDrive using GPO
I suggest you make OneDrive more “enterprise ready”. We are in the planning stages for moving user documents to OneDrive but there are glaring limitations compared to using Windows based local shares. Here is a list of requirements if we were to seek out a 1:1 match for what we do now:
Make all OneDrive settings controllable via GPO. Without it, deployment is a non-starter given the number of workstations that we need to visit.
Use a folder redirection method to access OneDrive as the default. Sync should be secondary. This will solve a few problems. One is with shared…
82 votes -
Fix "Shared with Me" 'Duplicates' in View
In OneDrive for Business today the Shared with Me view is at times difficult to follow for some users and results in 'duplicate' entries.
Here is the simple scenario for Users1 and Users2:
In User2 Documents folder create the following simple structure where the names are self-describing:
Documents\FolderSharedEditwithUser1
Documents\FolderSharedEditwithUser1\FileOwnedByUser2SharedEditwithUser1
Documents\FolderSharedEditwithUser1\FileOwnedByUser2SharedViewwithUser1
After a while the Crawler will re-index the User1 Shared with Me view. In addition to showing the primary entry:
FolderSharedEditwithUser1
It…
81 votes -
OCR function for PDF
The whole OCR function for PDFs would be great. In that case I would definitely work directly within OneDrive.
81 votes -
Support for embedding video
Now we can embed on website/blog our documents, presentation, txt file, photos, exe file (!)... but we CAN'T embed our own video!
I think, that is not a technical problem, but fear before pirating films - ofcourse, it is important, but lock a embeding function is not a good way to fight with pirats.
Please, add option to embedding our own video.
80 votes -
Please fix MIcrosoft update bug...
OneDrive creates a temp file called aria-debugger. It's huge...40 g bytes, and keeps growing, grabbing all the free space on the hard drive.
80 votes -
Prevent ODB users from emptying the second stage recycling bin
My understanding is that when a document is deleted from a document library it goes into Trash for 93 days. After this 93 days documents get moved to the second stage recycling bin for a further 93 days. Therefore a deleted document is only truly deleted after 186 days (unless someone empties the recycling bin manually). The second stage recycling bin is only accessible by site collection administrators.
This is all well and good but what about OneDrive for business recycling bins. They follow the same policy 93 + 93 days, but in this instance the user is a Site…
79 votes -
Regarding time zone settings of personal site
I would like a function that allows administrators to either batch-set the time zones of individual user's personal sites or to synchronize the site time zone with the location information in the user profile. We have a lot of users who aren
t overly knowledgeable about computers and thus our administrators are spending a lot of their time responding to related inquiries. There surely are a lot of companies who
s employees are usually all working in the same region, and so it`s quite inconvenient to have te time zone by default set to PST and every employee having to…79 votes -
Slow download speed.
I have 1888 pictures and it's taken 24 hours to get to number 464. The wifi is strong here so that couldn't be the problem. Faster downloads speed.
79 votes -
Add the auto tags back to source source files (my offline copies)
The auto tags feature is great!! I love it so much, I would love it to actually write those tags back to my offline copies of the files so that as I work with them in Lightfoot, WLPG or, really anything but onedrive.com, that same metadata is available.
This would need to be configurable on/ off as I'm sure some people don't want you messing with their pictures.
This supports the idea of truly portable files that are the same no matter where or how I look at them.
78 votes -
Allow the sync client to store files on network drives
This was already posted (http://onedrive.uservoice.com/forums/262982-onedrive/suggestions/6329917-update-onedrive-for-business-to-sync-with-a-netw?page=1&per_page=20) and 241 people voted for it, but the deadly "Declined" status make the idea ineligible for support from the community, even though two pages of comments suggest there is a need for this feature. The fact is, businesses (including education organizations) have limited local storage and users that roam all over campus. We can't even use the sync client if it only stores files locally.
In addition, MS has not just opted to not develop this option, it's actively disabled some of the "creative" ideas people suggested to make this work. That's frustrating.
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78 votes -
Allow OneDrive to sync to a folder that already exists
This would be helpful in a corporate environment so that you could redirect your user folders to your OneDrive for business folder (Desktop / Documents / ETC) with GPO and have them sync their user files to the cloud automatically. Then in the case of a lost/Stolen and possibly Cryptolocked laptop you can retrieve the users files without effecting their ability to use them when not in the office.
A previous version actually allowed for this to work, however the newest version (17.3.6381.0405) stops you from using a folder that already exists.
77 votes -
Possibility to customise the invitation mail with my company brand and send the invitation mail from my company mail account.
Customers need to brand the Invitation mail with logos...
e.g. a bank could not send inviations from/with microsoft logos and from a microsoft mail address.The mail should be branded with customer-logos and sent from a customer mail address.
77 votes -
Provide the ability to set an alert in OneDrive for Business from the Standard view (not the Classic OneDrive)
Provide the ability to set an alert in OneDrive for Business from the Standard view (not the Classic OneDrive). Each folder or document should have the ability to have a “follow” or “alert” associated with it, without having to go to the “classic OneDrive”. Utilize a “right-mouse” button to allow for the “alert” or “follow” function.
77 votes -
Fix incorrect calculation of remaining free space when using Symbolic Links
Creating a SymLink in the local OneDrive folder to another drive may incorrectly disable the "OK" button in the selective folder sync dialog. Reason: the calculated remaining free space on the local drive (used for the OneDrive folder) is incorrect.
Example:
Drive C (size 200 GB, 150 GB free) contains the OneDrive folder which contains a Symbolic Link to D:\syncme
Drive D (size 1000 GB) contains 300 GB content in D:\syncme
=> The remaining free space on C is being calculated as -150 GB (or less), i.e. the OK button cannot be selected, even though there is still free space…76 votes -
Allow others to edit or collaborate on shared albums
I would love to be able to create shared photo albums that can be co-owned as opposed to simply shared. It would be nice to be able to give permissions to someone else so they can share their photos to the album as well.
An example of this is the following. When I was recently in Europe with my girlfriend, we both took lots of photos with our phones and they were uploaded to our respective onedrive folders. Now it would be nice to be able to create an album (not a shared folder) of the trip where we can…
75 votes -
Provide the setting that enables displaying a preview first when opening Office Online files.
*English follows Japanese
■Title(件名):
MC131670 についてProvide the setting that enables displaying a preview first when opening Office Online files.
■Description(内容):
MC131670 について Office Online のファイルを開いた際の動作として、従来のプレビュー画面を先に表示するようにする設定を提供してほしいThere is something I would like to ask you about the behavior when opening the Office Online file described in MC 131670.I hope the setting will be available that enables displaying a preview first when opening Office Online files as before.
Thank you for your consideration.
75 votes -
Prevent user from desynchronizing some folders
It is recommended by Microsoft to redirect "Known folders" to OneDrive for Business.
Source Microsoft: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Redirect-known-folders-to-OneDrive-for-Business-e1b3963c-7c6c-4694-9f2f-fb8005d9ef12?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US
Desynchronizing a folder on OneDrive also removes it from the computer. This behavior generates side effects when desynchronizing "System/Known folders" (ex: Desktop)
Is there any plan for adding a GPO that could prevent users from desynchronizing some of their folders ?
75 votes -
Preserve file dates while syncing
OneDrive for Business sync client(s) should preserve creation- and modification dates when files are added to the library.
75 votes -
75 votes