Hi, im in a bit of a bind,
I setup office 365 for a small business i know, having complete confidence that office 365 would make it super easy to share all their company documents that everyone needs access too.
Put in simple terms, and i hope someone can help me because i'm real trouble.
I need a product that i can quickly upload all files and word, excel documents to a place that everyone in my organization will be able to share by default, all have equal permission and editing capability straight away, i don't want each user to have to invite other users, i want everyone to see each others stuff by default, my users will just keep their personal files somewhere else. basicly i have a group of word and excel documents, that everyone needs full access to at the same time, I can't seem to find an easy way to do this.
I can see the 'shared with everyone' folder in skydrive pro, and i have read articles that say, these folders do not show up to everyone in an organization automatically, that in fact, the 'share with everyone' folder is a folder u can put stuff in and at any time choose to share individual files in that folder with everyone, this folder, does not (despite its misleading name) share files with everyone. this folder simply allows u to share with everyone, but u still have to send a link via email to a file inside the share with everyone folder, in order for someone else to access that file.
this will not work for my needs, it is too slow, and requires users to be somewhat savvy with their email and links. I need a folder that everyone can see that simply has the documents inside it.
I need to create a mapped network drive or a folder on each user's desktop, something that is easy to use.
Then inside that mapped network drive or folder, i need all the documents and files to show up as simply, as they do when u store them locally.
If you need me to explain exactly what i need again, please don't hesitate to ask, i really need this. I thought microsoft would have a simple easy to use tool like this ready to use, i thought i could just drag my whole organization folder with documents in it, and upload it to sharepoint or skydrive pro and as soon as the upload was finished, everyone who had a office 365 user account would see the files popping up as they were uploaded.
just to be clear, i understand that skydrive pro offers a personal hard drive, this simply doesn't work for me, because i need a harddrive in the cloud that everyone can see and access intuitively, not by searching every time or finding a email link, they must be able to just simply and easily see the word documents and excel files sitting in a folder, and everyone must be able to see and access these at the same time.