I just spent half a day working out how to get around the silly division Microsoft have put up between OneDrive for business and OneDrive (personal).

There are a bunch of questions out there on this issue, but the main one is how do I share a folder from one to the other – as this is currently not possible.

Here is how I figured out a work around that might work for you.

Some points

1. Don’t share between business and personal
2. You are the admin of your business Microsoft account

The work-around

1. Create a non licensed user in Microsoft Admin (ignore the “not recommended” part)
2. Now open OneDrive for business on your personal computer
3. Login with the new account
4. In your main business account, share any folders you wish with this new user
5. Each one needs to follow these steps
   1. When you share the folder, choose “specific person”
   2. Copy the link to use in step 6
   3. Right click on the OneDrive for business logo
   4. Select “sync a new library”
   5. Select “sync a different library instead”
   6. Paste the link into the field with “Paste your Library URL here”
   7. Select “Sync now”
   8. Your work folder will appear on this computer now, and you can upload to it too.  Either sharing the 1TB of space with your business account, or at least accessing these files.

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