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Antoine HESKIA's avatar
Antoine HESKIA
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Jan 23, 2018
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Sync external OneDrive shared folders

Hi,   I have shared a folder from my OneDrive (for business) to an external user (external organization). He has also an O365 E3 subscription. When he click on the invitation email, he sees corre...
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  • Salvatore Biscari's avatar
    Salvatore Biscari
    Jan 23, 2018

    You cannot sync folders shared from a user belonging to another organization.

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Salvatore Biscari
Silver Contributor
Jan 23, 2018

You cannot sync folders shared from a user belonging to another organization.

  • Cheri695's avatar
    Cheri695
    Copper Contributor
    Jul 18, 2020
    Thats the most perfect function in Sharepoint to control external pp download document in organization, I think!!
  • Antoine HESKIA's avatar
    Antoine HESKIA
    Brass Contributor
    Jan 23, 2018

    Wow... This is crazy ! We did that for years with Dropbox. Are you aware to any plan regarding adding this feature ?

    In the meantime, I guess I have to create a O365 group (or a MS Teams) to use SharePoint sync (with Groove for external organization).

     

    Thanks,

    Antoine.

     

    • Chris Black's avatar
      Chris Black
      Copper Contributor
      Jun 20, 2018

      Agreed, crazy! 

       

      And to make it worse, this little tidbit is nowhere to be found in OneDrive Admin, O365 Admin, or any of the pages describing how to share to external users. 

    • jcgonzalezmartin's avatar
      jcgonzalezmartin
      MVP
      Jan 23, 2018

      If I remember well, the ability to sync shared folders is coming but no ETA yet.... adding StephenRice and Stephen Rose to the thread

      • StephenRice's avatar
        StephenRice
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        Jan 25, 2018

        Hi all,

         

        Yep, pretty much what Juan said. We've got this feature on the roadmap but don't have any specific timeline to share just yet. Thanks!

         

        Stephen Rice

        OneDrive Program Manager II

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