Hi Alll,
I am new to SharePoint and i am loving the product. Also new to this website.
We are in the middle of migration of 15.000 users to the cloud.
14.000 students and 1000 staff. (big school)
My question is what are the users experiencing if they want to work with non-office files.
Lets say a Autocad, Adobe Photoshop and all other kind of files. Some of them can be verry big.
1. Opening them in File explorer with a link to the SP library is working fine?
2. Are a lot of open connections from users using their File Explorer with a connection to SP giving a problem?
3. What can we do to make sure that users have a good users experience when we go live with non-office files.
Please share your thoughts on this.
Thank you
Aldo
As Nico mentions, the big question is whether your file sizes are within the 2Gb limit. If yes, there are some solutions available through Microsoft WAN optimization and accelerator partners (for example – http://ru.riverbed.com/solutions/by-application/cad/) that can improve performance.
Another option is to do this kind of collaboration around OneDrive for Business rather that your team sites in O365, giving more individual flexibility in how/when/with whom you are sharing these files.
SharePoint has long had a large file transfer issue, and its more of an issue on O365. If you dig through TechNet and Microsoft marketing materials, you’ll find CAD performance guidance that trends heavily toward hybrid options, where these asset libraries and content types are kept separate from MS Office-type content and treated differently. That may not be the path you want to go, but there are case studies out there.
It depends on how you use the files. There is a 2GB file size limit in Office365.
If a user downloads a 2GB file from Office365 (which is possible), it will probably take a while, as it is downloading a file from the internet to your local computer.
Thanks Nico,
I will have someone recalculate the bandwith needs.
So having a programma like autocad and opening big files and saving them does not has issues with O365 / SP ?
Hi Aldo,
Seems like a cool project your working on.
Regarding your question, I’ll try to answer them, but I’m not 100% sure if its accurate, at least it might give you some insight.
1. Opening them in File explorer with a link to the SP library is working fine?
Opening files in File explorer relies on WebDAV. This should work fine.
2. Are a lot of open connections from users using their File Explorer with a connection to SP giving a problem?
The main issue with this might be bandwith. With a lot of users connecting and downloading files from Office365, you might need to calculate how much bandwith you need for Office365. Microsoft can provide an estimate on howmuch bandwith you’ll need. (This is not an exact science, more of an educated guess)
3. What can we do to make sure that users have a good users experience when we go live with non-office files.
As long as the users have the appropriate applications to open/use the files on their workstation, this should work fine as well.
Please let us know if you have any additional questions.
