Scanning to Onedrive

[frase]

A business client has a Brother MFC-L3770CDW printer. I am using the Brother Web Connect currently to scan to Onedrive. I am wondering is there a better method that users here use to scan to Onedrive?

Thanks.

 

[Rigo]

A business client has a Brother MFC-L3770CDW printer. I am using the Brother Web Connect currently to scan to Onedrive. I am wondering is there a better method that users here use to scan to Onedrive?

Thanks.

I scan to the local OneDrive folder with the scan tool and it gets synchronised

 

[thecomputerguy]

Scan to folder / scan to OneDrive just seems exceptionally more difficult than just doing scan to email no?

 

[frase]

I thought would be easier to directly scan to Onedrive for collaboration and sharing as files.
It is currently setup with Scan > Network >Share. Though since the share is coming from a Onedrive folder on the "Host" it would be less hassle just to scan direct to Onedrive. @thecomputerguy I never use the scanto email functionallity maybe that maybe an approach to think of.

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

OneDrive isn't really meant to be a file server for the business....OneDrive client is more just for backing up and syncing the personal folders. You can do "one-off" share folders for sending large files to various people.

For the "central file server" for a business ...Sharepoint is the central file server. And to make it easy to create those root shared folders and permissions, you leverage Teams to do that for you.

Microsoft has several "Power Automate Flows"....meant to take file attachments emailed to that Team/Channel you create for the scans to go to, and save that PDF to the document library. This is the 365 way to have a "Scans" folder on the central file server...that the MFP saves scans to.

 

[britechguy]

For the "central file server" for a business ...Sharepoint is the central file server. And to make it easy to create those root shared folders and permissions, you leverage Teams to do that for you.

As you taught me, and I thank you.

However, Microsoft has made OneDrive a nightmare "thing that means multiple things," just as it did for Outlook (how many versions are there?).

Even though I know that the Central File Server is indeed SharePoint, everyone at their desks accesses it via OneDrive, and they justifiably think of it as "OneDrive" and don't give a flying rat's patootie regarding what's behind that curtain.

I'd really rather, here, that we would say SP/OD for SharePoint via OneDrive for the sake of precision, but you and I both know that the tendency is to express things in terms of what we are seeing and touching on the computer, not the infrastructure that does lie behind it.

 

[frase]

It is being used to allow two users to scan to a particular shared folder from System A [MAIN] & System B [OTHER USER].
They both require access to this shared folder, the scanned docs folder and contents just need to be available for access for both users <>.
It has been sorted out anyway, thanks all.

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

However, Microsoft has made OneDrive a nightmare "thing that means multiple things," just as it did for Outlook (how many versions are there?).

Yeah they're naming can use a bit of sorting out....
OneDrive...originally started as just syncing the common use folders (docs/desktop/pics)...back when it was originally SkyDrive......added ability to add more folders in the root of it. And then the sync client...OneDrive Sync Client...also became the sync engine for Sharepoint doc libraries.

Would have been nice if the "sync client" was named something else. 365Sync or something...lol.

So yeah, agree...some confusion there.

Kinda like...Teams..within Teams. Teams is the program...and each colored tile within the Teams program...is called a Team itself...