Bappity

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GOOD

You have backup and tape but not shared storage‽ Wut‽

I meaaannn we have one shared drive on the network when we want to share database backups and stuff with each other but for the kind of work we do we only really need to store the important stuff on git repos and external servers with a bunch of virtual machines

my brain tired now, I stop talking about this

Yes, of course. IMO OneDrive is much easier for the end user instead of having to remember to store files in a share or using folder redirection which is prone to fail sometimes. Because using OneDrive they only have to store files where they normally store them and they get automatically synced and backed up to OneDrive. Something being easy is a huge benefit because it will ensure documents and everything else is backed up properly and it reduces support load.

fair fair

Please tell me you have some kind of backup of those computers where you don’t use shared storage or apparently anything “proper”.

many backups and tape drives when we max out storage. we’re good

Btw, GPOs only work using a domain. You are probably using local policies and those are sometimes not as likely to work.

our user accounts are on a domain

You don’t use Windows home too, right?

no ew

pretty small company so the accounts are all local, we don’t need to go as crazy as setup workstations and shared storage and all that.

It’s much better than the old way of home folders in a file share.

arguably subjective

not the point of my comment

windows 11 has a onedrive sync service that is almost impossible to disable even with group policy and all that.

I tried to make a clean image of the OS that could be booted from the network. never again.

just look for hyper evolved salamanders, that’s what happened in voyagers warp experiment gone wrong