With the OneDrive integration, most end users won’t even know they’re clicking on something that is attached via OneDrive. It looks and acts just like a normal attachment, but is only stored in one place!
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Pretty sure there was an IBN/policy that said the same for us too? Use OneDrive rather than attach. That is our rules.
I did not know this 
Although the integration isn’t great on Outlook for Mac, it still just renders as a link that you have to open a browser and log into, and Sharepoint isn’t exactly the most speedy interface
That’s a fair comment that I wasn’t aware of. GMG - Macs.
Except Big Macs.
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In a previous job, someone caused the entire organisation’s email system to crash by attempting to send a <very large, the details of which I can’t remember exactly> file to everyone in their department.
It took 24 hours for central IT to deal with it, and free up the subsequent backlog of email
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I’ve heard horror stories of similar. It really does annoy/amaze me how some people can have computer-based jobs yet be so IT illiterate.
Did you see this amazing* horror story?!
* not amazing for PhD students who were in the final few months of their PhD who lost everything, or academics who had to try and explain to funding agencies why they couldn’t complete projects, etc…
Holy hell, no I hadn’t. That’s quite something. There was a good saying someone said to me once RE backups but I can’t exactly remember it. Something to the effect of your backups are only as good as the last time you tested if they worked, but it was a nicer saying.
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Sounds like IT dropped the ball by not setting a hard file size limit within the system, preventing them from even hitting send or pushing a server side rejection.
Even in the company I was at that wasn’t large enough /didn’t have dedicated internal IT, there was a limit even for external email and for anything else we used WeTransfer.
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…I won’t scare you by saying it was a Central Govt public sector organisation running some very high tech services… 
But can’t configure an email server.
Government you say? Makes sense.
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in fairness - the groups who ran the high tech national stuff weren’t the same as the central IT
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My dad was a loss adjuster. He went to a recording studio after a flood which then caused an electrical fire. They kept all their back up drives in the same room as the main drives. Lost years of work. Because of that I kept multiple backups at uni. One at my gf house, one on a cloud, one in my room, one in my locker at the SU etc.
Always store important data at least three ways: original data, backup on separate hardware and backup that is off site!
Given how easy getting access to clould storage is now there’s really no excuses!
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One is none and two is one.
If your master goes down, backup A is instantly your new master. If recovery fails, you need another backup.
Permanently hardwired on-site back ups are also dodgy - a nice power surge frying more than one at once.
Aaaaaand a back up that hasn’t been health checked…
Yeah. Contingencies for contingencies, planning for impromptu obsolescence, etc.
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IT gurus do say that if it doesn’t exist in three separate locations then it [digital file] doesn’t exist at all…
GMG. HMG updating guidance on Friday afternoon but switching off their update service so nobody found out unless they stumbled across it.
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I tend to archive everything, where does this get stored? I’ve always found it a mystery.
GMG - leaving my Award in Education and Training Assignments til the last minute - my own fault i know