Office 2013 includes an enhanced version of Skydrive that integrates with next generation of SharePoint services. Currently, Skydrive is available as a way to bring all your personal files to the cloud, you can also use it to sync data across multiple machines running Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8. With Skydrive Pro, you can setup your own online cloud storage for your organization and provision it so your employees can also store their files in the cloud and sync it across supported devices.
In this article, we take a quick look at how to setup Skydrive Pro.
Click File
Click Account and click Add Services then click Office365 SharePoint
Sign in using your SharePoint account. You should obtain this information from your System Administrator.
You will now see a list of services show up in the Account Backstage. You can start saving files to your SharePoint Team Site or you can copy existing files to your Skydrive Pro folder. See the following:
To save your document, click File > Save As then click the name of the documents folder on your SharePoint site, if not, click Browse.
Then click Save
Once your file is saved, you can now access it from your Office 365 account:
Click Sync and your files will show up in Skydrive library:
Your files will now be synced and updated.
You can also work on your documents in Office Web Apps.
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If this makes sense, then Sky Drive is for personal use and Sky Drive Pro is for the enterprise. Do we have to pay for Sky Drive Pro or does it come licenced with Office 2013?
It is only available as part of Office Professional Plus and Office Standard, and you need to have SharePoint setup on the backend or through Office 365 business editions.
I take that back, Sky Drive sucks big time. It has had a bug that won’t let me download my files from skydrive onto my computer. Support told me to shift through 7000 files to find the ones missing and to manually download them until they can fix it (as if I have time to check 7000 files and folders to find what is missing) It has been at least 2 months and they haven’t provided a solution. I’d spend more money and use DropBox instead if you are smart. I’m learning why Microsoft has a bad reputation amongst computer gurus. They figured this out much earlier then me.