GA OneDrive for Business Next Gen Client version number

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Stephen Rose wrote:

• GA is 17.3.6743.1212. This is reflected in the documentation.
• Please check out the documentation "Enable users to sync SharePoint files with the new OneDrive sync client"  for enabling this feature. 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

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Sorry to interrupt but your linked article still talks about the Preview Client and also that you need the Registry Keys to make it work with SharePoint document libraries.

This is not necessary anymore. That article is obsolete and neither contains a version number nor even a date! It only talks about "the new client" but doesn't specify it.

The release notes of OneDrive are here:

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/New-OneDrive-sync-client-release-notes-845dcf18-f921-435e-bf28-4e24b95e5fc0

A manual about the transition from the old client (Groove) to the new one is here and it also includes the minimum version numbers for Office.

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Transition-from-the-previous-OneDrive-for-Business-sync-client-4100df3a-0c96-464f-b0a8-c20de34da6fa

Basically you bring your computer up to date (Windows, Office), check the version numbers, and send the NGSC the following command:

%localappdata%\Microsoft\OneDrive\OneDrive.exe /takeover

Now the new client moves the synchronized libraries from Groove and takes over. If all went well it also removes Groove from Autostart.

I have done this with a few machines in our office already and it worked.

Thanks Stephen Rose for reply.

So nothing change since last preview version in December even version built number et deployement using registry key?

I have read about a GA version with built number 17.3.6760.0105 but found no where to download it.

Thanks to confirm because as said Bruce Piper it will change deployement consideration

Regards

Stephen Rose, can you confirm that the manually adding the registry key is still required to enable SharePoint libraries to be synched as the posted documentation mentions?  I thought that a feature of GA was removing this requirement and enabling automatic takeover from Groove.  If not, that changes the deployment considerations greatly.