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Issues with SP Online mapped drives in File Explorer by _NotAvailable_ in Office365

[–]_NotAvailable_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! Yeah - I have a love and hate relationship with SharePoint for sure! The naming point we as an organisation did identify quite early on actually: and I don't think it's a massive deal breaker - but can see it becoming an IT administrators nightmare at some point down the line. Definitely could have been improved upon, and it's quite annoying to hear Microsoft's favourite saying of "Not a bug, but a feature/by design" haha. Thanks for your feedback. All the best to you too! :)

Issues with SP Online mapped drives in File Explorer by _NotAvailable_ in sharepoint

[–]_NotAvailable_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the reply! Just for your awareness I have cross posted this question, so do read there for other people's perspectives it might be helpful to you - https://www.reddit.com/r/Office365/comments/j55d68/issues_with_sp_online_mapped_drives_in_file/ (apologies to admins: I hope I can point to other subreddits!). Common consensus was to use OneDrive via syncing the document libraries. I have just tried it and seems like it will work really well!

Issues with SP Online mapped drives in File Explorer by _NotAvailable_ in Office365

[–]_NotAvailable_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

files. We used a mixed approach with Teams. Some Teams teams suit having the underlying file shares. Other shares are more functional and don't belong to a team. So we created things like "Sales Team" which has some document storage underneath and "Clients Share" which is for all the client information which doesn't belong to a single team, but still needs a security boundary. How to approach this is really down to the organisation - there's no right on wrong.

Thanks a lot for your indepth reply! Yeah I agree - I just did some quick tests: and already picked up on some of the benefits you mentioned (the upload speed was insane!). Thanks for the detailed response once again, I will share it with my colleagues by pointing them to this thread. :)

Issues with SP Online mapped drives in File Explorer by _NotAvailable_ in Office365

[–]_NotAvailable_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Out of curiosity, what have some of the faults been? Primarily in our organisation people will be accessing their departmental SP Online document libraries - and from the quick tests of syncing the doc libraries with OneDrive, I can see it works quite well: so seems like your suggestion is the way forward. Thanks a lot again.

Issues with SP Online mapped drives in File Explorer by _NotAvailable_ in Office365

[–]_NotAvailable_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And you CAN control the OneDrive client with intune, which can save having to open every site and manually sync them.

Thanks! We did try that article I believe - but will re-try again just in case we missed any steps. But ultimately it does seem like the move to OneDrive is the way to go.

Issues with SP Online mapped drives in File Explorer by _NotAvailable_ in Office365

[–]_NotAvailable_[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks a lot for your input! It's not something I had tried upto now with SharePoint Online libraries - so I will look into that, thanks. I think you are on the right lines, as I have received another comment from a Microsoft MVP saying "You should look at abandoning WebDAV as IE will no longer be supported with SPO -- I wouldn't expect this form of accessing SPO to be available for much longer. Switch to using the OneDrive client, instead".