I’ll give you the exact steps first, then mention a couple of Important Things To Know™ down below. Really? Well, fine, aren’t you Miss Smarty Pants.

I don’t know when this feature was introduced in OneDrive for Business. For years I’ve been steering clients to Box and Dropbox Team Folders because OneDrive didn’t handle shared folders well. This cures one of the difficult pain points for a small business using OneDrive for Business. The subfolders and all the files can be browsed and searched but they don’t take any hard drive space. There’s no need to go to the OneDrive website. With a few clicks, the other employees can see “Company” in File Explorer. That allows a small business owner to set up a single shared folder named, say, “Company.” The folder is shared with other employees. Shared folders in OneDrive for Business can be displayed in File Explorer and browsed naturally, just like your own OneDrive files.

I just learned about a OneDrive feature that might be a bit of a game-changer, especially for small businesses.

Setting up one drive