Sharepoint 2013 : Using SkyDrive Pro - Accessing your SkyDrive Pro account, Saving files to SkyDrive Pro

1. Accessing your SkyDrive Pro account

Each SharePoint 2013 account is set up with a SkyDrive Pro account. Remember that there are two main differences between SkyDrive and SkyDrive Pro:

1. Skydrive is a free online storage option that provides you with a personal library that you can use to to upload and access files form any of your devices.

2. Skydrive Pro provides you with a personal library that you use for business.

Access SkyDrive Pro

1. On the toolbar at the top of your SharePoint site, click the SkyDrive link.

   

Tip

The SkyDrive link that you see at the top of your Office 365 or SharePoint 2013 pages is actually an abbreviation of SkyDrive Pro. This refers to your SkyDrive Pro library, not your personal SkyDrive account that you might have.

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Access your SkyDrive Pro account and have a look around. If you have a personal SkyDrive account (the consumer version offered by Microsoft) you will notice that none of the files that you have in your SkyDrive account are present in your SkyDrive Pro account.

2. Saving files to SkyDrive Pro

You can treat your SkyDrive Pro account as a storage area.

When you open SkyDrive Pro initially, you’ll notice that you have a folder named Shared With Everyone. As the name implies, anything that you place in this folder is accessible to anyone in your organization by default. (This is similar to the Shared Documents library in SharePoint 2010.) If you store a file in a folder other than the Shared With Everyone folder, it will only be accessible to you by default.

Save files to be shared with everyone

1. On the toolbar at the top of your SharePoint site, click the SkyDrive link.

   

2. On the SkyDrive page, on the Quick Launch bar, select the library that you want to use for saving files.

3. Connecting a SharePoint site to Office.

   

4. Open the Office file that you want to save to the SkyDrive Pro folder (in this example, a Microsoft Excel worksheet) and then, on the ribbon, click the File tab to display the Backstage view.

   

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   Save a few documents to the Shared With Everyone folder. Then, ask one of your colleagues to access the files. He can do this by performing a People Search for your name and then clicking Shared With Everyone.

5. Click the Save As tab.

6. In the Save As section, click Computer.

7. Click Browse.

   

8. In the Save As dialog box, in the Navigation pane on the left, select the SharePoint Sites folder.

9. Double-click My Site.

   

10. Double-click Documents.

    

11. Double-click the Shared With Everyone folder.

12. Type a name for the file.

13. Click Save.