That should not come as a surprise, as it would allow employees to store data where the company and its IT staff had no visibility.īecause OneDrive Personal is associated with Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal, and because those consumer-appropriate subscription plans are not licensed for work-related tasks, on purely legal grounds, the vault isn't suitable for storing business documents and files. OneDrive for Business does not have a vault feature and is unlikely to get one. Like OneDrive for Business, OneDrive Personal encrypts data during transit between the PC and Microsoft server (and back), as well as when the data is 'at rest' (on Microsoft's server). On Windows 10 machines, the Personal Vault synchronizes to a BitLocker-encrypted section of local storage think of it as a specially-encrypted folder. (The single stand-alone plan is $2 per month for 50GB.)

There, users are allotted 1TB of OneDrive space.

Although OneDrive Personal is a free service - albeit with a puny 5GB of storage - many come to it from the Office 365 subscription service. Files opened from the vault will also close when the timer expires.Īs the feature's name implied, the vault is only for OneDrive Personal, the consumer-grade storage service, not for the OneDrive for Business available to commercial customers. Access to the vault will also be on a timer, Patton said, that locks the partition after a user-set period of inactivity.

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