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Former Employee

Jan 24, 2017

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 p...

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David Rosenthal

Microsoft

Jan 25, 2017

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.

Bruce Weatherford

Brass Contributor

Jan 25, 2017

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
Microsoft
Jan 25, 2017
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?
- Bruce Weatherford
  Brass Contributor
  Jan 25, 2017
  So the implication is that the OneDrive updates are tied to the Office ProPlus updates? I always assumed they were separate since the documentation mentions it auto-updates but no mention of ProPlus that I saw.
  
  Any idea where I can download the latest release? I've tried a few different places and get the 6743 build.
  
  Thanks, Bruce...
  - David Rosenthal
    Microsoft
    Jan 26, 2017
    I'm on 17.3.6743.1212 and all the new stuff is running. If that is what version you are on, there may be some other factors stopping you. You can try forcing Office updates potentially, but proceed at your own risk!
    
    Go to any Office application (Word, Excel, etc) and do File --> Account --> Update Options button --> Update Now. You're on your own if you start getting angry emails or visits from IT. :)