SkyDrive |
SkyDrive Pro |
| Who is it for? | |
| For individuals to keep their files in one trusted place with 7 GB of free storage and to access them anywhere across their devices. Users can share privately with the people they choose and work together using Office and the Office Web Apps. | For students, faculty, and staff to provide storage for their users to keep work-related files in a trusted SharePoint library and have access across their devices. End users can share privately with the people they choose and work together using Office and the Office Web Apps. |
| How do you get it? | |
| Currently available free to individuals atSkyDrive.com, included in Windows 8, Windows Phone and the new Office.
Office 365 Home Premium and Office 365 University includes 20GB of extra storage. |
Available through your school’s IT department as part of Office 365 for education. With SharePoint Online, each user will have 7GB of personal storage. For on-premises SharePoint 2013, the per-user storage capacity is configurable by IT administrators. |
| How do you access your files? | |
| SkyDrive files are available on any device either through SkyDrive.com or the SkyDrive application. | SkyDrive Pro files are available on SharePoint online on their Office 365 account to retrieve files. |
| What if there is no internet connection? | |
| With SkyDrive installed on their computer, users can open and edit local copies of their files. Once connectivity is restored, the files will automatically sync to SkyDrive. | With SkyDrive Pro installed on their computer, users can open and edit local copies of their files. Once connectivity is restored, the file will automatically sync to SkyDrive Pro. |
| How is it integrated with other Office applications? | |
| Users can open, edit and save documents directly to SkyDrive from Office desktop applications. In the new Office, SkyDrive is the default save location for consumer SKUs. | Users can open, edit and save documents directly to SkyDrive Pro from Office desktop applications. In Office Pro Plus, SkyDrive Pro is the default save location. |
| What about security? | |
| Access is protected by a user’s password and the connection is secured with SSL encryption. | Access is protected by a user’s password and the connection is secured with SSL encryption. |
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Håvard Siegel Haukeberg 
February 5, 2013 at 10:13 pm
Where and how does one download skydrive pro for office 365 education? We are having confusion on web apps for office365 for education. Is the web apps actually Sharepoint (which is confusing for staff and students) or am I missing the link for skydrive pro because I haven’t fully implemented Sharepoint for office 365 yet? Thanks for the chart!
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February 6, 2013 at 4:21 pm
Hi,
The skydrive pro bits that enable the sync is included in the Office 2013 installer.
It is being worked on decoupeling that bits so it Works Without Office 2013 installer.
At the moment that is not ready. If you can extract the SKydrive Pro bits you should be able to enable offline file sync.
The web apps are a service which enables you to open files on skydrive pro web Interface.
you do not need to download and install skydrive pro to use skydrive pro, it can all be done in the browser.
so, more confusing or less?
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March 6, 2013 at 3:41 pm
So, are there any actual differences between the Pro and Non-pro version? Other than the possibility to sync SharePoint libararies in the aforementinoed. I feel that I’m missing something here 🙂
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March 6, 2013 at 3:45 pm
Skydrive is personal, if a student forget his/hers password, the teacher cannot help.
Skydrive Pro is managed by faculty IT, so if student forgets password it can be reset
So basically, SKydrive Pro can be controlled by admin.
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