We’ve heard requests from several customers asking to make it easier to move their user data into OneDrive. To have a single button that they could push that would move content from the Desktop, Docu...
Updated Aug 24, 2018
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Hi all,
my scenario which I have spoken to support about is unusual. On my main work laptop I have the auto-save tab and can sync known folders to any of three business accounts. On my desktop PC with the same client version and the same accounts I have no auto-save tab visible. There are no folder location changes on either machine. It seems bizarre that the same client version, same windows 10 version and same account login exhibits different behaviour. There have been no registry changes either. In fact on the desktop PC, I had my 365 personal account linked and this was the only account that showed the auto-save tab, when personal accounts aren't supposed to be covered by this update, as I read it.
Support didn't have the auto-save tab available on their accounts and were unsure on the rollout status, I'm waiting for a follow up on this. Clearly I am eligible and it makes no sense that it should work on one machine and not another if it is tied to account eligibility. I am going to try on a test machine too and will feedback here.
OK so it seems that the auto-save tab is indeed linking to a personal account, so was this functionality released on the personal accounts first? The text as part of the ODFB release suggests otherwise most of the time, although not everywhere!
I installed the OneDrive client from my 365 biz premium client on a test laptop and linked my biz account, no auto-save tab. I then linked my personal 365 subscription account and hey presto the auto-save tab appears on the personal account and now ALSO on the biz account which can then be used to sync docs, pics, desktop... So.… now I have one laptop with only biz accounts which has the autosave tab, one desktop with only auto-save on personal account and not on the biz accounts and now a vanilla laptop which only gets the auto-save tab when a personal account is linked.
Incidentally, I removed the personal account and closed that onedrive down, just leaving the linked Biz account and it does not seem to remove the auto-save functionality. Clearly there are some oddities to this new function and how it interacts with biz accounts.
As a further update, on a third laptop which also has personal and biz accounts, only the personal account has the autosave tab available not the biz accounts. The functionality on the personal client is slightly different in that you can choose to keep only on this PC or in onedrive on drop down tabs, whereas the biz accounts do not have these options. This machine also has the same client version as my main laptop and desktop build 18.135.0705.0003. The test laptop is on an earlier version 18.111.0603.0006 even though this uses the same account which is on the faster release ring, albeit no office 365 installed, so possible some effect All rather odd.