How to use OneDrive Personal Vault

Learn more about the Personal Vault, a protected area in OneDrive that you can only access with a strong authentication method or a second step of identity verification, such as your fingerprint, face, PIN, or a code sent to you via email or SMS. Your locked files in Personal Vault have an extra layer of security, keeping them more secured in the event that someone gains access to your account or your device.

As full-disclosure, I work at Microsoft as a full-time employee.

[portraitonetelo]

Thanks for sharing Kevin. Perhaps, it will be great if Ms can employ "client side, zero knowledge encryption" to that Personal Vault folder as that would be a game changer, definitely. Personally, as of yet, I wouldn't dare add a copy of my passport or anything confidential into that "vault".

[mikeav]

Is there any kind of encryption over OneDrive?
What is the best security practice to get our files encrypted and stored in the cloud ?

[marcshawn]

Since you did not state that Personal Vault includes any additional file encryption measures I will be sticking with a Cyrptomator + OneDrive combination.

[TheMack]

So, I'm at the airport, and I don't have my passport. Could I use Onedrive Personal Vault to show my image of my passport and get through? If so, is that legal? Also, seeing that Microsoft has the algorithm for the proprietary encryptoin, is it safe from snooping from Microsoft?

[MuhammadAli-dkdz]

Good Microsoft is also providing a list of files they would like to see in your personal vault. You don't want NSA digging your entire computer wasting their precious time ;)

[arjunbhatia]

How safe is this personal vault? Is the data encrypted while transferring and at rest? Is there a zero knowledge encryption used in Vault? What about legal access and US jurisdiction's access to someone's personal vault?

[Chris-pqjb]

I personally use the one drive encrypted vault but I do employ sophisticated security in the cloud and on my devices and do monitor the accounts and change passwords often.

[JuneRohm]

Hi when I clicked on to get the personal vault everything when well except that it said something like 1 of 14 steps but I didn't get the other steps and I can't see the extra folders you have on the right of your screen. Please can you help me

[TeufelhundenGrunt]

So I put stuff in my vault from my phone an my computer.

But I can't see my computer stuff on my phone and vise versa.

What am I doing wrong!?

[shenirem]

its saying peronal vault is not syncing because the name or type isnt allowed i dont know how to fix it

[Animalfarmg]

Why you don't provide Exercise files in your Power BI tutorial? I can't follow your tutorial.

[carinemutamba]

I can’t get into my personal vault, when I put my verify email it says we can’t send you a code try again, how do I get a code so I can access it ??

[simonk]

I've made the setup for this new function, but it's useless for me.
The problem is that there's LIMITATION FOR ONLY 3 FILES. For more files is asking for some kind of Premium subscription.

[rayralph]

How do you transfer photos from your phone to your one drive personal vault

[karencraig]

How do I scan if on my laptop? I noticed my phone app displays the worn scan.??? Thanks new to all this.

[littlescholarhighschoolneredme]

How can we recover windows disk diagnostic error-Hard disk error on laptop.

[BasilGramma]

Can you use Power Automate to upload to the Vault? I think to do that, you'd need an app-password? (Just guessing).

[marcomolina]

hello maby you can help me i seem s that one drive team deleted all my files in one drive for 2 yeays inactivity tell me can i still recover them using the onedrive files RECOVERY option i seen thugh its only available if am subscribed at office 365 please tell me how i can recover my files they were many i hAD THANKS

[icesummer]

@01:24 in the onedrive, this is same view as my onedrive withouth the SYNC but i can see other have the SYnc, what is the difference between two views?

[iufyqnp]

can we password protect onedrive folder in a common onedrive account?