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Antoine HESKIA's avatar
Antoine HESKIA
Brass Contributor
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.

Helios Comms's avatar
Helios Comms
Iron Contributor
Apr 26, 2019

Another call for this feature. I've convinced one of my clients to consider using OneDrive instead of Dropbox for Business - mainly as they have it as part of their Office 365 Business subscription. But now I discover the topic of this thread and their clients can't work the same way as Dropbox, i.e. the shared folder appears as a sub-folder in their own OneDrive space. Worse, you can only edit in Word Online (for example). There is no ability to open in Word, edit and save back. 

 

The reason I assumed this feature was available is that if you share from a personal OneDrive to another Personal OneDrive, it does work like Dropbox. Assumed that because Microsoft had merged the two OneDrive clients, that OneDrive for Business worked in same way. Fool on me! :-(

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