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Stephen Rose
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's avatar
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

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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!

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