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Learn How OneDrive Sync Works With Office 2016
For years, you have been able to sync your OneDrive (and SharePoint) documents to your PC, which lets you work on the go while still being able to collaborate with others in Office. This integration ...
Jon,
There are two issues with this. One is that the groove client might not have been disabled when the new client was installed. You can run "%localappdata%\Microsoft\OneDrive\OneDrive.exe /takeover" from the command line to ensure the new OneDrive for Business sync client is running.
The second issue is that the SharePoint Admin needs to select which sync client will be 'called' by SharePoint when users hit the sync button. This is in the SharePoint Admin tool under settings:
One work around for issue two is to add the library from OneDrive in the taskbar by using the URL.
Hi Ward - Could you clarify the work around for issue 2? Are you adding the URL to the SharePoint Library to OneDrive??
- In the Groove sync client, you can add a SharePoint folder to sync by pasting the URL into the pop-up that displays after selecting "Sync a new library" from the right-click dialog of the task bar icon. With the new sync client, you have to add folders by navigating to the SharePoint or OneDrive site and click Sync. The SharePoint or OneDrive admins have to change the SharePoint and OneDrive settings to open the new sync client to add the folder. The default setting is to open the groove sync client.