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Shadow cloud usage exists for many reasons. “Shadow cloud” is a name given to public cloud services that employees use without formal approval. I’ve written previously about teachers using “Shadow IT” services in their schools, this post focused on compliance risks around unauthorised sharing of intellectual property, and this one summarised the views of the New Zealand Government’s Chief Digital Officer on the topic.

Some other cloud storage providers offer this as well – notably DropBox – however there are many reasons why educational institutes would like to use OneDrive for this functionality.

Security, security, security – preventing people from seeing the submissions of other collaborators means you can use OneDrive File Request with confidence that anonymity is assured for the submitter.

They do not have view or edit access to your OneDrive. People who respond to your request can only upload files.

See the scenarios below – the ability to collate all files inside your OneDrive is awesome.

All the files sent to you are saved in a single folder that you choose.

This is critical – reducing the barriers to collaborators sending you content by requiring no authentication and no existing account/subscription for a service means users can send the files you need with the least amount of hassle.

Anyone can send you a file – they don’t need to have OneDrive.

The users that you request files from cannot see what’s in the folder – they can only upload files to it. With the file request feature in OneDrive, you can choose a folder where others can upload files using a link that you send them.

Sooo I just found out about "file request" feature – it's awesome: I used the similar feature from for a while now, but allowing anonymous uploads to is great for school competitions with digital entries etc! FYI Sam McNeill February 18, 2020 I tweeted about this yesterday and it was well received by educators who had longed for this functionality: The Microsoft 365 Roadmap shows that the new feature of File Requests was released in Q4 2019