OneDrive for Business on-Prem

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On premise, OneDrive for Business, SharePoint 2019

Nothing new to be honest, but I found it weird for whom yet are not aware of this info.

So I will write about it…

Yes we have OneDrive for Business on-Prem, yet there is definitely the cloud one too.

And I’m not talking about any hybrid model over here.

So what does OneDrive for Business on-Prem requires or lets say, what are the pre-requisites?

1- SharePoint, yes SharePoint is a must.

2- And it is mandatory to configure the user profile service application and sync users from domain.

3- That’s it. I told you; nothing new. ya and do not try it with System Account! it has to be a user, not service account or farm account.

But I noticed a typo in SharePoint, as I was provisioning my user profile, it said, One Drive for Business on Cloud, listen, you may have your SharePoint on-prem and your One Drive for Business on Microsoft 365, doable.

But again I’m here only on-Prem! nothing cloud, this screen shot for OneDrive for Business ON-PREM.

By now, I hope everyone would be aware of it.

When to backup Content DB using SQL backup and when to backup site collection using PowerShell

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Backup, SharePoint 2016, SharePoint 2019

We use Backup Content DB using SQL back up most likely for Migrations Option, meaning you are migrating from SharePoint 2016 to SharePoint 2019.

in that case, to migrate we use the command Mount-SPContentDatabase

So most likely this is used for migrations.

But if you use the Backup-SPSite option using PowerShell, then you may be moving your site collection in the same Farm from one web application to another and you can definitely move it from one Farm to another but within the same SharePoint Version, so this is not migration.

So the what do you want to do is …. what you will use..

Hope that helps understand things right.