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On-Demand Sync feature, any news?
Hi, Im getting often questions from customers around the "placeholder" functionality in ODfB. I think it was mentioned in Ignite 2016 sessions that "it will come as On Demand Sync" but I cant find a...
Give a look to this thread: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/OneDrive-AMA/On-demand-and-save-outlook-attachments/m-p/43039#M72
I don't think this is related to the question.
Also, I don't think that the thread subject is not what the thread starter was asking, since I would seperate those two:
- On Demand Sync
- where you choose the folders that you want to sync locally (=consume real local storage)
- this is already possible with NGSC
- Placeholder Sync
- this is were you sync the "whole" (or part of the library) and you manually choose which folders are really synced locally, and which folders are just "placeholders" (=no local storage consumed), but you can still browse them with the Windows Explorer.
- this feature is not yet available, I'm also not aware of any offical announcement, though it has been requested mulitple times
Placeholder Sync with On Demand Sync would be the best of both worlds, especially for users with small hard drives (e.g. SSDs). You'd be able to still "sync" (though sync is not the correct word for this) the full document library, but only consume local storage for those folders that you want to, while still allow local browsing of that document library, but being redirected to the online storage location.