UpDates. Vol X, Summer 2019

It’s been over 6 months since our last “UpDates” volume. Much has been done to improve the speed and stability with which our system works, but that’s not something we could write about: another 10% better/faster/stronger is not something we believe you would like to read about. At last, we’ve released a couple of very … Continued


SharePoint UpDates: Opening a Pandora’s Box

SharePoint updates make our user experience more and more sleek, while every SharePoint update is a Pandora’s box. Here are some tips to be prepared for the calamities: Plan it out No matter what method you choose, you’re bound to have down-time in one form or another. Whether it’s a full farm outage or a … Continued


G Suite Data Recovery

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Imagine your worst nightmare has come true: all shields are down, and someone has managed to access your G Suite domain, removed or corrupted the most critical data. Let’s look at some built-in and third-party options that will help you perform a full-scale G Suite data recovery. All of the principal G Suite elements, including … Continued


Google Team Drives Access Management

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A Team Drive provides shared storage space for people in organizations that use G Suite Business, Education, or Enterprise edition. What differentiates a Team Drive from a person’s standard My Drive is that the Team Drive acts as the owner of any files and folders created or added to the Team Drive. As a result, … Continued


How to Recover a File in SharePoint

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If you’re using SharePoint Online (part of Office 365) there are some implications when it comes to restoring files, libraries, or sites if something bad happens. In this post, I explain how to recover from when you mistakenly delete stuff, when things go corrupt, or, you know, those inventible times when content seems to grow … Continued


Team Drive and Google Drive: Pros and Cons

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Team Drive used to be the most anticipated G Suite feature before its release in early 2017. Although When you actually start sorting out your data there comes a choice between normal “My Drive” folders and Team Drives. Which one is better? As you might have guessed there is no clear answer to this question: … Continued


OneDrive for Business Tips

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More than ever, employees are relying on cloud-based tools that allow them to work smarter and more effectively. For organizations running Office 365, One Drive for Business is becoming the focal point for end users and cloud IT admins alike. It’s helping end users collaborate and giving admins additional capabilities to manage their tenant’s influx … Continued


UpDates. Vol IX, February 2019

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UpSafe has done a lot of improvements into our Office 365 Backup and G Suite Backup systems in February. Here are some of the most significant things we managed to improve during the last month: Our system can now keep original Modification date for restored OneDrive, Google Drive, SharePoint and Team Drives items, reducing the amount … Continued


Comparison: Google Drive vs Google TeamDrive

In terms of file management and maintenance G Suite offers two interconnected solutions: Google Drive and Google TeamDrive. The question I am looking to answer in this article is the following: does Google TeamDrive produce any value for customers’ in corporate usage, compared to simply Google Drive. Although the main difference between them might see … Continued


Google Drive: Cleaning Up

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Google gives you 15GB of free space in Google Drive, which seems like a pretty good deal compared to Dropbox’s 2GB and Box’s 10GB. But there’s a catch — that 15GB limit includes not only your Google Drive, but also your Gmail account (messages and attachments) and Google Photos. If you use Gmail as one … Continued