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[Editor\u2019s note: This content was written to highlight a particular event or moment in time. Although that moment has passed, we\u2019re republishing it here so you can see what our thinking and experience was like at the time.]<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n Within Microsoft, there are some entrenched employee habits that make the company what it is, like living in email, dressing casually, and project managing a solution for every problem.<\/p>\n Also high on that list?<\/p>\n Saving files locally, a habit that has stuck with a company that grew up around Windows and its system of using folders to store and organize files.<\/p>\n Now, the company wants its employees to store everything in the cloud on OneDrive for Business, where it\u2019ll be more secure and easy to access, plus several other reasons that will be shared below.<\/p>\n But first, about changing the entrenched habit of clicking File, Save As, and then navigating to your favorite folder on drive C.<\/p>\n \u201cWe thought about asking our employees to change their behavior, but then we asked ourselves, \u2018Why? This is how our employees like to work,\u2019\u201d says Anne Marie Suchanek, a program manager on the team that manages OneDrive for Business internally in Microsoft Digital.<\/p>\n Instead, Microsoft Digital worked with the Microsoft OneDrive Sync team to deploy a feature called Known Folder Move (also available to external customers) that makes it possible for employees to save documents, and pictures to their file folder system the same way they always have. The only difference when they save their content via that familiar local drive file path is that their content also will automatically save to OneDrive for Business.<\/p>\n \u201cWhy change a good thing?\u201d asks Suchanek, who is currently leading a rollout of the file-saving experience within Microsoft in North America. \u201cWe decided to go to them with a solution that will allow them to keep doing things the way they like to do them.\u201d<\/p>\n Known Folder Move very specifically mimics the exact motions that employees (and all Windows users) have used for decades to save files\u2014the only difference is now Microsoft and its employees enjoy the security and convenience of having their content automatically saved in the cloud.<\/p>\n Suchanek\u2019s Microsoft Digital team is currently rolling out the feature via an email announcement that encourages employees to adopt early. After the opt-in phase finishes, the team will\u2014after letting them know that it\u2019s coming\u2014silently deploy the system to everyone in North America (except those employees whose complex folder workflows would be disrupted by such a move). When North America is finished, the plan is to expand to the rest of the world.<\/p>\n It\u2019s all part of the company\u2019s journey to the cloud.<\/p>\n \u201cWe want to be a cloud-first company,\u201d Suchanek says. \u201cThat means doing everything we can to embrace all the different features of the cloud, and part of that is getting our corporate data on the cloud.\u201d
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