I think you're missing a lot.
What Office365 plan do you have? That makes a difference to some of your points below, like archiving. You moved your project data to SharePoint included with your Office 365 plan? Are you using site libraries and want to sync those libraries? If so, then you still need to use the old One Drive for Business client (that's called groove.exe). The new One Drive for Business client is called OneDrive.exe. What exactly are you trying to achieve with your end user data? At one point you talk about all of it being stored on One Drive for Business. Another point you say you can't do that because of some OneDrive limitation on hard drive size. Where have you got the information that One Drive for Business is limited to the space on a user's hard drive? You get 1 TB of space per user on OneDrive with any Office 365 business or enterprise subscription. That's not limited to hard drive size. Now if you are trying to sync all the user data, then that will cause the issue you mention. But It doesn't appear to be clear to me. Do these mobile users, or the people with limited hard drive space, need access to all the data all the time? If so, then you have a problem. You and them are going to have to make some hard choices on what gets synced and what doesn't. Also, how are you planning to make sure that their data is saved to OneDrive for Business? How are you planning to back up all this user data on OneDrive? Art From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jonathan Raper Sent: Wednesday, June 1, 2016 10:05 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: End user data - local, cloud, home directories, and OneDrive, Oh my! Thanks Stephen, We're actually still testing and not officially supporting the use of it because Microsoft keeps changing it up and promising new features/functionality with the next release.. (yes, I know that's what we bought into with O365, but like I said in my original post, it (OneDrive for Business) still feels not quite fully baked). We have worked with the NGSC, and it fixes a lot, but we still end up with the quandary of data on the endpoint versus data on a server share/home directory (or external hard drive). Some of our users simply don't have enough local space on their hard drive to store everything.. And the way I understand it, the storage on One Drive for Business is still limited to the amount of space you have on your local machine, even with the Next Gen Sync Client. So, if you have 500 Gigs of data and your local drive is only 250, you can't put everything on OneDrive, which in my opion defeats the purpose. Or am I missing something? Thanks, Jonathan From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stephen Gestwicki Sent: Monday, May 30, 2016 1:04 PM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: End user data - local, cloud, home directories, and OneDrive, Oh my! It sounds to me like you are not using the OneDrive for Business Next Generation Sync Client <https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Get-started-with-the-OneDrive-for- Business-Next-Generation-Sync-Client-in-Windows-615391c4-2bd3-4aae-a42a-8582 62e42a49> that came out a couple months ago. Microsoft based that version on the consumer OneDrive client and fixed just about all the issues people were having with the old business client. It still may not be the best solution for you but I think you should see if you are using the older client. - Stephen From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jonathan Raper Sent: Friday, May 27, 2016 11:24 AM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [NTSysADM] End user data - local, cloud, home directories, and OneDrive, Oh my! Hi all, We've made a lot of strides to consolidate and streamline our infrastructure and data footprint..one thing seems to evade us - dealing with end user data, and I'm curious what you all are seeing and what you're doing with end user data. We've moved email to O365, so that eliminates PSTs and the need for archiving (at least for now, considering that we went from a 2 Gig limit to a 50 Gig limit). We've moved 90-95% of project data to SharePoint, and so that all but eliminates shared drives, and it seems to work well. Most of our business apps are hosted, so that really only leaves one thing: end user data on the endpoint device and in Home Directories on file servers. Originally (before we really understood the limitations of OneDrive for Business), we had hoped to be able to move all of that data to OneDrive and be done. Alas, the limitations of OneDrive and the design don't lend itself to that (at least for the users with more than about 100 Gigs of data due to OneDrive limit being based on the local user's available hard drive space. It is also not a fully baked product yet. We've experienced our share of quirks rolling it out.) So, really, just about the only thing keeping us from eliminating file servers (which is something we really want to do) at this point is this end user data. We want to consolidate it and make sure it is backed up, but are wrestling with exactly how to best achieve this for a distributed organization with hundreds of users, many of whom are mobile. What are you guys and gals doing or seeing to address this need? Yes, we have many users using DropBox and Google Drive - we'd like to move away from that if possible, though DropBox Business or Enterprise is not necessarily out of the question, but it really does get expensive @ $12.50/$15 per month per user. Thanks, Jonathan NOTE: This message and any attachments is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is non-public, proprietary, legally privileged, confidential, and/or exempt from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the original sender immediately by telephone or return email and destroy or delete this message along with any attachments immediately. 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