Think of
the M365 environment as a company campus with many different buildings.
There are various buildings on this site in which people work, store and
sometimes also communicate. This includes TeamsBuildings, SharePoint-only
buildings without an associated team,
and personal OneDriveContainers.
Each user
has his or her own personal FileContainer. These containers are not
located in a building, but as separate areas on the premises –
separate from Teams and SharePoint buildings.
It belongs exclusively
to you and is permanently linked to your personal user account.
My
personal OneDrive container
In your
personal container you store:
personal
files
Designs
Work
status
Notes
Documents that no one else is
supposed to see (yet)
🔑 Access & Use
Only you have access to
your container.
Nothing in it is automatically
visible to other people.
You can share individual files in
a targeted manner, to internal or external people
OneDrive is
your own little place to work, independent of Teams and SharePoint.
❗Important note:
The container
disappears when you leave the company
Since the
container is hard-bound to your user account, the following happens:
🗑 If your user account is deleted→
your personal container will also be
removed.
🔒 Shared files are then also gone
All the people
you've shared something with → lose access because the location no
longer exists.
📦 Therefore
, everything that
is important to a team, department or company → belongs in a Teams building
or a SharePoint building, not in your personal container.