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Norman Di Pasquale
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Oct 01, 2016

My experience with the new OneDrive Team Site Sync

Microsoft announced at Ignite that the new preview OneDrive client would sync full Team Sites, link here: https://blogs.office.com/2016/09/26/sharepoint-online-sync-preview-headlines-ignite-announcem...
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Paul Cunningham's avatar
Paul Cunningham
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Oct 04, 2016

The changeover was reasonably easy. Having to stop sync and then re-sync everything was a little annoying but the new client build seems to sync faster than the legacy client, so it's bearable.

 

I've had the new build crash a few times when adding a new document library to sync, but other than that it's been stable.

 

Interestingly, the old groove.exe client seems to have been ignoring file type restrictions that were set on the libraries. The new client respects them, so all of a sudden a bunch of Zip files in our group library got flagged.

 

I also noted that reinstalling/repairing Office on your computer reverts to the non-preview build and lost the ability to sync libraries, so I had to repeat the preview install + reg key steps.

  • Alan_McFarlane's avatar
    Alan_McFarlane
    Iron Contributor
    Oct 07, 2016
    I've tried it in one new user. They had .jar files. They wouldn't sync. The new Activity window was going kinda psychadelic. Not pleasant. Flashing between a red warning about that and the normal blue progress reporting of the other (100s) of files upload progress. (BTW I was accessing the PC remotely.)

    I'm gonna try giving the user customize permissions on the SP site to see if that allows the .jar files to sync.
    • Paul Cunningham's avatar
      Paul Cunningham
      Iron Contributor
      Oct 07, 2016

      Why are they storing jar files in ODFB? Seems odd to me, but I assume there's a rational explanation.

      • Alan_McFarlane's avatar
        Alan_McFarlane
        Iron Contributor
        Oct 10, 2016

        So, the user has a business app written in Java where the suggested backup solution is just to copy the whole folder. So they thought, just plonk it in my team's site...

         

        Adding the customize perm has let the .jar files sync. The consequences of that to the SharePoint site I don't know...

  • Randy Nieraeth's avatar
    Randy Nieraeth
    Iron Contributor
    Oct 04, 2016

    Im having mixed results with the new client and reg key.

    Adding multiple SharePoint Doc Libraries is resulting on OneDrive crashes on some clients.

     

    One client which worked well over days, keeps on crashing after startup.

    It had 5 shared OneDrive for Business folders in sync. Once deleted it works well again.

     

    My experience is mixed based upon this.

    I know it will be a great addition but right now im not pushing it out in production environments.

     

    Anyone having these same experiences, or getting luck of repairing the issue when multiple SharePoint Doc Libraries are synced?

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