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looking at options for a bit of shared storage for our team

we have multiple users (10) across 3 different sites plus some homeworkers and previous to the team expanding we ran a complete bodge of o365 home onedrive with everyone using the same log in which actually worked quite well for what we needed it to do

we've since moved to a proper business version of o365 and are looking to replace our rather dodgy shared drive setup.


option 1 is to throw nas or server in the rack at the office and i presume we can then have users map the drive even if their remote?

option 2 is what i'm looking for advice on, is there a multi user easy access option for shared online storage? after 2 years of user our bodged onedriver has accumulated 6gb of shared docs so we dont need large amounts of storage space hence i'm thinking
throwing a nas or server in our own rack might not be the best option here

option 3 is actually use sharepoint which seems a bit faffy having to log in and use a browser rather than what we have with an easy access link to onedrive in my computer which is nice and easy for a lot of our current users.

open to suggestions folks :)
 
Yeah, hire a contractor, or pay an MSP to design and do it properly. Sure, you could DIY it, but I don't think that would be a good idea, as no offence intended but you come across as you don't really know what you want or what you are doing. If you do DIY it with a Synology NAS, make sure you look into offsite/cloud based backups.
 
If you've moved to Office 365 for Business then you've already signed up to and are paying for what you want right? Can you move everything to the OneDrive for Business account?
 
Thanks for the feedback guys.

the onedrive for business does seem "faffy" and our MSP is steering us towards using sharepoint rather than onedrive.
personally from a people managment pov i'd rather keep everything as simple and as easy to manage as possible ie click into my computer and then open your * drive for shared docs or click into your onedrive in the same place which has worked quite well for us up to now.


whilst we do have what seems to be competent advice on hand it always pays to look at alternative options and part of me wants to try and keep that continuity in place for existing users if possible it might really be as simple a solution as creating a desktop shortcut for our sharepoint.
it also helps to get an understanding of what your throwing money at :)
 
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You already pay for SharePoint Online, read through the docs and make some sites in there to share files with, then sync them to your PCs. You only have 6GB of data, it's not a huge deal to move it all again if it turns out to be a mistake.

A company of ten staff spread across three sites with WFH requirements and 6GB of files should not be buying a NAS.
 
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OneDrive with shared access.

You already have the licence for them.
Set up then start adding top level folders with who needs access to what.

Don't go for an on-site NAS. Take a look on how much it costs to do backups as well. You could easy setup a server backup solution and have OneDrive on there automatically syncing to somewhere else.

I set this up for multiple companies and it's very easy to manage. It's one of the easiest solutions!
 
What ever option to go for, make sure you deploy a backup solution of the data even if it's cloud based as most (especially MS and MS365) won't guarantee recovery/retrieval in the event something happens - i know this first hand and it was a stressful few months.
 
visibleman said:
What ever option to go for, make sure you deploy a backup solution of the data even if it's cloud based as most (especially MS and MS365) won't guarantee recovery/retrieval in the event something happens - i know this first hand and it was a stressful few months.
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We implement remote and local backups on a server where OneDrive is used. It works a treat.
 
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