My office wants to shift from a traditional physical network server to a cloud service through SharePoint/OneDrive (I don't even know the difference?).
Is there any documentation on MicroStation/Bentley requirements for such a thing?If anyone here is doing this sort of thing already, what sort of issues and pitfalls have you run into? What problems have you had to work around? I'm going to have a meeting with our IT folks (who are essentially CAD illiterate) and I want to have as educated discussion as I can.
We currently have our workspace on the network, pointed to by a custom configuration. In theory, We may need to simply redefine a half-dozen variables from M:CAD to...whatever the SharePoint address would end up. But is it really that simple?
(Yes, Bentley people, I know you want us to use ProjectWise products, but we aren't going to buy another software package when SharePoint is "free". Besides, we don't have anyone who could configure or administer those)
Thank you.
Hi Mary,Similar topic but I saw your post and remember coming across a Reddit thread:PSA.. Do not host AutoCAD files in Sharepoint : r/sysadmin (reddit.com)
The general thread appears to discourage CAD files being shifted to SharePoint, particularly when used with the vertical platforms like OpenRoads.
Thanks Mick, good point to highlight.
Some of the OpenNnn applications also have relationships between files that are not recognized by generalist document storage systems sync mechanisms, another aspect that ProjectWise Drive supports.
Regards
Marc