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Announcement: OneDrive brings new file collaboration and management features to the enterprise
In today’s digital workplace, the amount of content produced is growing exponentially, and working relationships change by the day. To maintain productivity in this environment, it’s essential that people can easily access and collaborate on team files in and outside their organizations from anywhere, on any device.
Today, Microsoft is excited to announce availability of several new capabilities in OneDrive for Business that make it easier than ever to sync, share and collaborate on all your files in Office 365.
Here’s a look at what’s new:
- Sync all your files anywhere, anytime across PC and Mac
- Simplified file sharing in and outside your organization
- Empowering administrators to manage with confidence
- OneDrive for Business customer momentum
Read more on Office Blogs.
Let us know what you think
As always, we want to hear from you and encourage your feedback on what is impacting you and your world.
Join us on Wednesday, February 1, 2017 from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. PST / 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. GMT for an “Ask Microsoft Anything” (AMA) session on OneDrive for Business in the OneDrive AMA group. Add the event to your calendar.
We hope to see you there!
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I haven't been able to see the activity center display the changes within the syncing of files, is there a force update that needs to be made to the client?
- David Rosenthal
Microsoft
This is all awesome, and was fairly painless for my org. We already have this fully running for all users! I'm already getting thank you notes from users who are incredibly happy they don't have to deal with groove.exe anymore :smileyhappy:
Some quick feedback for you. The instructions on this page ( https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Enable-users-to-sync-SharePoint-files-with-the-new-OneDrive-sync-client-22e1f635-fb89-49e0-a176-edab26f69614?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US ) are not very clear, and some of them were completely unneccessary, at least for my org.
All we had to do was flip the new 'Sync client for SharePoint' setting to 'Start the new client' and wait a few hours and this was running for all users. That step should be called out very plainly and prominently, where all the rest with messing with registry, terminal commands etc should be better identified for when it applies. I'm guessing it fits for certain scenarios, but it was not needed for us.
- Thanks for sharing this information. We already have 'Start the new client' enabled but I haven't received the update yet. Does anyone have an idea on how long this could take? And is it at all influenced by our Deferred deployment settings in Office ProPlus?
- David Rosenthal
There are a few things you should check from down in the comments on the Office Blogs post. One of them is making sure you've done the January Office updates. Not sure, but I think the deferred channel might not have those yet?
Excellent! Please update the changelog with the latest version number! https://support.office.com/en-us/article/New-OneDrive-sync-client-release-notes-845dcf18-f921-435e-bf28-4e24b95e5fc0
Is there anyway for the user to 'check for updates' to force an update?
- Awesome momentum for ODFB!!!!
- Whats the current version number on the new Client on Mac and Windows?
