

That is a good enough way to imagine how the system works.įor example, if you send a sharing link from your OneDrive folder, the URL is a link to SharePoint Online. If you want to think of OneDrive as the backend storage and SharePoint as the frontend interface, you wouldn’t be too far off. The two file sharing systems in Office 365 are SharePoint Online and OneDrive, and they work in concert with each other to provide the total file sharing functionality of the system.

Over time, Office 365 can become a mess of public-facing links, unfettered access to sensitive data, and a permissions nightmare in desperate need of wrangling. "I was kind of shocked how open the sharing with Teams can be, one mis-click and your data is accessible to anyone on the Internet."īut all that sharing, and collaboration comes at a price – users might not even realize what they are sharing with whom.

