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Former Employee

Dec 20, 2016

Announcement: OneDrive Sync Updates

All of us here on the OneDrive Team have been hard at work delivering many of the OneDrive sync client updates we communicated at Ignite to further improve the user experience and administration of s...

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Richard Nilsson

Brass Contributor

Dec 22, 2016

Hi Stephen,

Great to hear that GA is ETA next month, we're awating this for our Win10/EMS/O365 deployment to a target group of 25 000-30 000 users in total.

A key question for us though is - will you be bringing back the context menu in the GA release? Currently there seem to be different versions distributed to different customers out there, some have the context menu and some don't.

The whole point of syncing SPO libraries locally is to be able to work and collaborate on files using File Explorer. Without the context menu users cannot right-click the file and copy link to easily paste and share the URL wherever/however they like. Instead they have to struggle to find out what the URL is in order to copy and share it.

Therefore the lack of the context menu is really a usability issue for us.

Thanks,

Richard

Abhimanyu Singh
Iron Contributor
Jan 23, 2017
Yes this. Stephen Rose the context menu "Get a Link" is absolutely must and is sorely missed. In absence of this, users have to go online and go through a convoluted process of getting a link via web interface!
- Abhimanyu Singh
  Iron Contributor
  May 17, 2017
  Abhimanyu Singh wrote:
  Yes this. Stephen Rose the context menu "Get a Link" is absolutely must and is sorely missed. In absence of this, users have to go online and go through a convoluted process of getting a link via web interface!
  Stephen Rose Any update on the right-click context-menu "Get a Link"? I am yet to hear anything on this. This functionality is most essential for our users.
  
  My users keep complaining of the convoluted process of getting a direct link to any file where they have to open their OneDrive or SharePoint library in browser and use the "Get Link" there.
  
  The new "Share" option in the context menu shnown in the Virtual Summit yesterday, doesn't cut it for getting those links quickly enough. The new "Share" option will open up the dialog for sharing options in a window with embedded web interface which will be slow and frustating. We want that old "Get a Link" option back which was lightening fast and gave the direct link (relevant people) straight away without going through the hoops.

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