Office 365 for family - sharing files

[RockyBalboa]

Is it possible to have a shared folder/files using the OneDrive facility that comes with Office 365 family?

[Pistom]

I think it is but only by logging into anothers OneDrive account. So you have 2 OneDrive accounts logged into each computer. If you have a spare user account - I guess you could make that a general one which everyone can access.

It gets more difficult on a mobile as you can only log into one account at a time whereas in Win10/11 etc you can log into multiple OneDrive accounts.

[Harpoon]

Possibly - this is the Share dialogue box for a OneDrive Personal on Windows 10 on a PC with an Office 365 Family subscription



Is that what you wanted?

[Mr Pointy]

Do these help?

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-o...
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365-life...

[RockyBalboa]

I basically want a shared drive/folder that all of us can use to save, edit and share files on (like a central shared drive).

[QJumper]

Don't know about onedrive, but what about something like Dropbox or pCloud?

[HappyMidget]

RockyBalboa said:

I basically want a shared drive/folder that all of us can use to save, edit and share files on (like a central shared drive).

See Harpoons answer. Right click on the folder in question, then send the sharing link to your family members using the option that anyone can edit.

[e-honda]

Essentially this is sharepoint functionality and i don't think you get anything like that on family accounts at the moment only business accounts. There is some bolt on crap like family safety app and the storage quotas are pooled, but otherwise at the moment essentially its 5 separate office 365 accounts with 1 bill.

[anonymous-user]

I've shared folders with the fam. Works fine.

[e-honda]

You can do standard sharing with one drive with or without a family account, you would need to share with each individual which might be fine.
I was think more along the lines of a 1 click create drive shared with whole family is what they were after, but maybe that is a bit over kill when you have up to 5 users.

[paulrockliffe]

e-honda said:

You can do standard sharing with one drive with or without a family account, you would need to share with each individual which might be fine.
I was think more along the lines of a 1 click create drive shared with whole family is what they were after, but maybe that is a bit over kill when you have up to 5 users.

I think it's 6 'users' ie 6 Microsoft Accounts, so you can do this two ways; either setup a pseudo account and share from that One Drive, or Share from one of the existing user accounts. I don't think it makes much practical difference for basic folder sharing, other than the files counting towards different user's allocation. It's 6 x 1Tb of space you have, so the pseudo account lets you utilise another Tb of storage, I doubt this is decisive for very many people though.

You can share the folder with a Group Email address in One Drive with a Family account too, so you can also create a Group with every 'real' person in it and Share to that. Which is a little simpler if you wanted to share folders or files adhoc rather than using a top-level folder and the use of that folder to define the shared status of the documents.

That then gives you the option of having different Groups with access to different stuff, but unlikely to be that useful when there's less than 6 or less people involved anyway. Perhaps there are things you'd want to share with just the kids maybe? Groups allow members beyond the 'Family' members too though, so it does allow sharing beyond the immediate family, which might be more useful.