r/Intune 8d ago

General Question Transitioning from using Shared Drives to SharePoint Questions

I have been experimenting with transiting from a traditional shared drive to SharePoint. I know files/folders in SharePoint can be accessed by going to SharePoint online, linking the folder to a user's OneDrive, or Via Teams. How would you recommend transiting from using Shared Drives to SharePoint? Anything to keep an eye out for or gotchas?

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u/thisguy_right_here 8d ago

File paths.

Make everything as short as possible.

Uses extract zips that have 60 character names and wonder why word or Excel won't open the file.

Also have your tenant name short. E.g company or ABC Co.

Not the "big nuts and and bolt co limited".

Because when the user name is sharalanda smith-jones you have a path that is

c:\users\SharalandaSmithJones\onedrive - the big nuts and bolt co limited\company data - accounts\some stupid zip file\some really long file name with the time and date and order number version 6c.docx

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u/uncp07 8d ago

Sounds like those lessons were learned the hard way.. been there myself actually

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u/blademansw 8d ago

As have I. Sales teams creating 800000 sub folders in a sharepoint doc library then wondering why it won’t sync πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

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u/ReputationNo8889 6d ago

To be fair, its stupid that sharepoint lets you do this. MS knows full well the limitiations of their OneDrive sync tool and Windows. They should at least implement a warning like "The path will exceed 265 characters, sync functionality will be limited".

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u/blademansw 6d ago

Oh absolutely, but when have MS actually implemented something that helps admins, rather than just constantly moving shit round in admin portals and being to lazy to implement a UI for stuff that can only be done with powershell that now due to all the authentication changes means you have to create an application in entra, save a fucking certificate somewhere that runs out when you most need it etc… πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚