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Stephen Rose
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Jan 25, 2017

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 ...
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Adrian Hyde's avatar
Adrian Hyde
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Jul 20, 2017

Hi Stephen Rose - we've just finished doing some network traces on the sync client because of some performance issues.  What we are seeing doesn't quite line up with the description you posted here - so am interested in your thoughts.

Specifically, when the option "Use Office 2016 to sync Office files that I open" is selected, we see that when opening an Office document that it will always try to download the server version - even if there is a local copy available.  When the PC is offline, opening an Office document will wait and time-out before opening the local copy.

When we unselect the "Use Office 2016 to sync Office files that I open" option, it does indeed open the files from the local drive as expected.

 

So my questions are:

(1) - Is this by design?

(2) - What are the downsides of removing this default option to use Office 2016 to sync files?

 

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