OneDrive interview questions

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OneDrive interview question and answers  are very important , this will be very helpful who are preparing for OneDrive for business interview.

1)How many ways we can access users OneDrive?

 

a)From Admin centre

b)SharePoint User profile

c)using PowerShell

 

2) When should I use OneDrive for business instead of SharePoint or Teams?

 

All are cloud-based storage, we can say in simple terms OneDrive is your own personal site , we can storage office documents , images   which you don’t want to share with your organization  or team members ,  Example : you are working an document in draft stage or not yet ready to share with others in that case we can use OneDrive ..

Using OneDrive sync client, we can use it as local hard drive  .. we can modify and edit all the files from local machine or laptop very easily, you can login with you account and access as these files from any device ...

 

3)What is OneDrive for business and OneDrive for Personal?

Both represents the same name 

OneDrive personal: it is used to sync and store your personal files share it with family and friends, we will get it for free with Microsoft account ... outlook or Hotmail

We will get 5GB of free space by default, we can extend if required with cost.

It provides personal vault to store important documents with two step verification

 

OneDrive for Business: we can share your Files, Documents and collaborate with your origination team members or with external users.

This is managed by your organization.

It is having 1 TB of storage for most of subscriptions, we can also extend up to 5TB.

Most secure, reporting and auditing options available.

 

4)Different type of sync issues?

Storage is full
OneDrive is in read only mode
File length is too long
Having Special characters
RESET your onedrive

 

5)How to remove special characters in OneDrive documents?

Using PowerShell

 

6)How to recover deleted files from OneDrive?

We can recover the deleted files from OneDrive recycle bin ,  within  93 days

 

7)What is the default storge limit for OneDrive?

Default storage is 1 TB for most of the subscription plans, we can increase the storage space up to 5 TB

 

8)What are the special characters OneDrive won’t allow?

" * : < > ? / \ |

9)What is file on demand?

OneDrive File on demand, will helps you access all your files in OneDrive without using storage on your device.

10) How to get the OneDrive usage for all users?

Using PowerShell

#Output location

$CSVFile = "D:\OneDrives.csv"

#Connect to SharePoint Online Admin Center

Connect-SPOService -Url "https://yourtenant-admin.sharepoint.com"

#All OneDrive Sites usage details and export to CSV

Get-SPOSite -IncludePersonalSite $true -Limit all -Filter "Url -like '-my.sharepoint.com/personal/'" | Select URL, Owner, StorageQuota, StorageUsageCurrent, LastContentModifiedDate | Export-Csv -Path $CSVFile -NoTypeInformation

 

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