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Our business migrated from OneDrive for business to a self-hosted Seafile [1] setup (we run it in a docker).

Seafile has a syncing client, and a drive client (Seadrive) for viewing files as if it was a shared drive.

Since moving to Seadrive I have not had a single support issue, nor heard of a single issue syncing, whereas I'd have them weekly with OneDrive to the point we'd have to delete their local files and re-setup OneDrive from scratch.

OneDrive truly is an abomination built on top of archaic Sharepoint.

[1] https://www.seafile.com/en/home/

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> OneDrive truly is an abomination built on top of archaic Sharepoint.

OneDrive _for business_ is built on Sharepoint. Onedrive ... erm ... not for business (?) is an entirely separate product, and they don't interoperate.

Which is another baffling decision by Microsoft branding, since for regular users they make no distinction. It only becomes apparent when you discover you can't work with people outside the organisation.

>It only becomes apparent when you discover you can't work with people outside the organisation.

You can share externally with Onedrive for business...

It's a setting in Sharepoint admin...

Once again, people here have no idea that most of their complaints with O365 is how management sets the security policy... not the platform itself...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/turn-external-s... :)

You are right in that it used to be bad.

Groove.exe... The old Onedrive for business client was a horror

> You can share externally with Onedrive for business...

Yes, but not (simply) with OneDrive, as the branding would suggest. Lesson learned, anyway.

Sharepoint is complicated enough as a system that it requires its own certification programs. People should really learn to get competent IT and ask them questions instead of trying to figure it out without any relevant skills and then complaining. I get it, most of us have been told and have witnessed that we’re much above the average joe when it comes to computer interfaces but that’s because a lot of low level stuff is intuitive and not as complicated as this. Just swallow your pride and ask questions.

> OneDrive _for business_ is built on Sharepoint. Onedrive ... erm ... not for business (?) is an entirely separate product, and they don't interoperate.

That is oh so weirdly common in MS ecosystem... like Skype for business being Lync and being significantly worse than "just" Skype (no idea what MS teams voice chat is based tho)

Teams is literally Skype for Business with a different skin, there's loads of traces of Skype left over where they haven't bothered to change the name.

Such as the process name in Linux for instance.

And now they will start to roll out Mesh which may or may not overlap with Teams (and Skype/Lynx behind that)

Mesh?

Teams for AR/VR environments

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/mesh

And teams for business...

Ive been using seafile for over 5 yrs in my business and it has so far worked flawlessly!

There are only very rare hiccups with binary files such as excel sheets or PSD files, where seafile will create a “SFConflict” file. Havent figured out how to fix that het.

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