New features are aimed at improving sharing and collaboration across work and life.
Microsoft has on Wednesday announced a slew of updates to OneDrive, including dark mode, an increase in file upload limit, and a bunch of new business and consumer features.
In a blog post penned by Microsoft 365 GM Seth Patton, the new OneDrive features across Microsoft 365 have been touted as bringing a more connected and flexible files experience to business users, more control to admins, and a more personal touch to everyone at home as “remote everything” has become the new normal in 2020.
Firstly, all users will get a file size boost, with the upload file size limit increasing overnight from 15GB to 100GB in OneDrive and SharePoint.
Dark Mode on OneDrive for the web across commercial and personal accounts is also hitting desktop users very soon.
For business users, a public preview will be rolled out later this month that includes a new feature, called Add to OneDrive, which Patton has said will make it easier to add shared folders directly to OneDrive.
Shared folders include content that others share with a user through their OneDrive or content that is a part of a shared library in Microsoft Teams or SharePoint.
Add to OneDrive will also allow an individual to work with the shared content with the same capabilities as if it was their own, he added.
“This means that the added content can be synced, shared, and collaborated on — and that it retains all existing security and compliance policies,” he wrote.
The public preview rollout will be enabled by default with the option for admins to opt out.
In a bid to bring filesharing within Teams in line with other 365 apps, users will soon have the option to create sharing links that provide access to anyone, people within the same organisation, people with existing access, or specific people, including those in a private or group chat.
