Business wants to move 9,000 users home drives to onedrive and 15TB data to sharepoint

glenimp617 · 7 Dec 2016 at 11:01

ok,

call my a cynic, but management has had an idea to move all users personal and shared data into the cloud

has anyone done this, or even thought about it

My gut instinct says no

glenimp617 · 7 Dec 2016 at 11:19

onedrive for business

It's just the thought of every user moving from a dedicated 1gb lan to a shared internet connection

assume appdata, desktop, internet favs, uev catalog remains the same

glenimp617 · 7 Dec 2016 at 11:28

Management want pure cloud, they don't know why, nor what problem they are trying to solve. They went on a Microsoft event day, and now want to implement it as it's cool and trendy.

glenimp617 · 7 Dec 2016 at 12:10

None of that has been considered.

We've only just moved to a nice new file server platform. This project took months and is nigh on perfection. Super fast, security neat and tidy, great technologies working like data dedupe, shadow copies to a dedicated powervault. It's really good.

Now they want to change it all?

Firewall does DPI so good look with fast file access

glenimp617 · 7 Dec 2016 at 17:13

skyripper said:
Presumably cost-savings, better collaboration, workforce portability and ease of administration, plus "No more backups or File Server headaches".

a new £24,000 san and £100,000 dual san/lto6 backup system has been purchased within the last 12 months, not to mention six new file servers

glenimp617 · 8 Dec 2016 at 08:45

Steeps said:
We tried moving 4gb to onedrive for business as a test to see how well it worked, every week we'd have to re-sync one of the libraries with all the users as one pc would stop syncing. Scrapped the project until the sync software is worked on to be more reliable.

That sounds like the users data is also stored on the PC (dont think the client supports network shares yet), we're not doing that. 100% Cloud baby :cool:

glenimp617 · 8 Dec 2016 at 09:25

Thanks,

what's everyone doing about the downloads folder? Currently it's redirected to our file server.

glenimp617 · 8 Dec 2016 at 11:19

Steeps said:
That was the reason why we were recommended OFB, a handful of staff work remotely and might need to pull up the latest clinical paper/presentation without access to wifi, so OFB would sync all the files whenever there was a stable connection so the document library they had access to was always up to date. Nice idea, didn't work.

That is/was a sound theory for your environment. Yeah, shame you had issues with it.