

Part II Having OneDrive And OneDrive For Business Together On Same Computer But in OneDrive for Business, that facility depends on the policies set by the organization. Either one shares or one doesn't, and the facility is there all the time. Further, the organization may control sharing outside the organization while there is no such control in OneDrive Personal. To share from OneDrive, one needs to know the recipient's email address, whereas in OneDrive for Business, if the recipient is in the same organization, one doesn't need to see the email address. OneDrive for Business starts at 1 TB and can scale up.Ī key difference that's easily noticed is differences in sharing. OneDrive users start with 5 GB free, and they can upgrade to 100 GB and 1 TB. OneDrive for Business comes at a price and starts with 1 TB storage. In contrast, OneDrive for Business is managed and controlled by the organization that purchases the license, and all licenses (OneDrive for Business accounts) can be managed centrally. To each its own - OneDrive is standalone cloud storage managed by an individual. OneDrive for Business, on the other hand, must be purchased as a license from Microsoft and is a part of Microsoft 365 Business.



If you have a Microsoft Account, you have 5 GB free OneDrive storage space for yourself. OneDrive comes integrated with Windows operating systems. Microsoft's answer to free storage is provided by Dropbox (2 GB), Google Drive (15 GB), and such. OneDrive is intended for personal storage. In all the differences that demarcate OneDrive and OneDrive for Business, the chief among them is the purpose of storage. Here are key differences between the two: OneDrive and OneDrive for Business may look the same but are different beasts when you know what's what with them. Part I Differences Between OneDrive And OneDrive for Business
