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Posted by Ken
Jan 8, 2018 at 03:05 AM

 

Hi Pierre,

Thank you for the reply.  I have nested my answers to your questions below.  This has been a very helpful start to solving this problem.

Thanks,

—Ken

Pierre Paul Landry wrote:
Ken wrote:
>> I also wanted to explore options that are not web-based applications
>(i.e. My Life Organized, InfoQube, Hyper Plan, etc.). 
>> My employer offers OneDrive, but without any file sync option to our
>machines.
> >Can you explain what you mean by that ? OneDrive is just a folder on
>your HD plus sync with the web server, not ?

At present, there are two ways that I have been accessing files on OD.  The first is when I log into the Office portal (when out of the office).  The second is through a log in on my desktop, and I believe through the Save/Save As options in MS products.  Due to my past preference for the network hard drives, I just never dug deeper into how to best use OD.  There may be a way to access it from the desktop, but I do not believe there is any active sync happening as we are not supposed to store any files on our C: drives.

>> Does anybody know if there is a way to have non-Microsoft products
>(like the ones that I mentioned above) access files that are stored in
>OneDrive?
>> For example, can I have one of the above programs “installed” (as
>portable software) on both machines, but share the data file between
>them on OneDrive?
> >Without sync, not sure…
> >A LAN folder is not an option to share data between computer /apps ?

Actually, I think that you just may have solved my problem.  I forgot that my laptop uses Junos Pulse to connect to the servers when I am away from the office.  I believe that it does allow me access to the network hard drives, and it that is correct, then I can keep my data files on one of the servers (as I do now) and then access it from either machine.  I need to test this out, but I believe that it may allow me to bypass the whole OD issue (and allow me some time to better learn what is and is not possible with OD in our network).
> >Pierre
>http://www.infoqube.biz
>