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We really like how OneDrive for Business has improved over the years and now it is easily on-par for ease of use with what has been considered the gold standard, Dropbox. The thing that makes OneDrive for Business stand out is that it is tightly integrated with the rest of the Office 365 products. We find this tight integration dramatically increases our productivity because the entire suite of products feels like one single product and we just use the functionality we need to use when we need to use it.
If you have Windows 10, you already have the latest version of the OneDrive sync client. If you don’t have Windows 10, you need to download and install the latest OneDrive sync client. You download Office 365 software by logging into your account at https://login.microsoftonline.com and then clicking Install Office Apps on the main landing page.
Using Search Functionality
The rich content-management features of SharePoint may be what often garner the most press, but SharePoint is not a one-trick pony. The search functionality of SharePoint is very robust and brings a Google or Bing-type experience to corpo- rate documents.
Search is one of those things that don’t seem important until you really need to find something. You may vaguely remember seeing a presentation done by your colleague a few months ago but have no idea where to even start to look for it in the shared folder. You could e-mail him, but what if he is not available and you need it right away? Search solves the problem of needing to find specific informa- tion in a sea of digital data.
SharePoint includes the ability to search across multiple sites. As your organiza- tion grows and you have an increasing number of sites, it would sure be a pain to have to navigate to each site in order to perform your search. With SharePoint, you can search in a single location and the search will span across multiple sites.
Sometimes, it can be difficult to get the exact terminology just right to return the content for which you are searching. SharePoint includes the ability to refine a search based on a number of configurable parameters called refiners. For example, you might be searching for that document that Bob presented to a client a while back. You type in the search term “onboarding employees” but receive hundreds of pages of content back. You remember that the presentation was a Word docu- ment so you narrow the search to only Word files. You still do not see the presen- tation right away, so you narrow the search down again further to only those
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