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Nov 11, 2016The steps to getting OD4B next gen sync client rolled out?
My company is in the midst of introducing OneDrive for Business to our users (~180); we're on E5 and migrated completely to the cloud for file hosting (SPO/OD4B). We all have groove.exe but it ma...
AKIMF
Nov 12, 2016Iron Contributor
Exactly the same questions here.
We are looking to move some users to OneDrive for business to have access to certain projects accross locations.
We have been testing the preview of the new OneDrive Client with SharePoint/team site access for some days (at least no more need for the old groove.exe), but we are still in dire straits.
Win 7 + Office 2010 + OD4B (new OD + SharePoint client):
no version history for office files
Office does somehow not recognize that od4b files are cloud files
Win 7 + Office 2013 + OD4B (new OD + SharePoint client)::
no version history for office files
Win 7 + Office 2016 + OD4B (new OD + SharePoint client)::
no version history for office files despite enabling the "let office 2016 handle od4b files" (don't know the English text, we use a German version)
So there is no collaboration possible for files being synced with the OneDrive?
We are looking to move some users to OneDrive for business to have access to certain projects accross locations.
We have been testing the preview of the new OneDrive Client with SharePoint/team site access for some days (at least no more need for the old groove.exe), but we are still in dire straits.
Win 7 + Office 2010 + OD4B (new OD + SharePoint client):
no version history for office files
Office does somehow not recognize that od4b files are cloud files
Win 7 + Office 2013 + OD4B (new OD + SharePoint client)::
no version history for office files
Win 7 + Office 2016 + OD4B (new OD + SharePoint client)::
no version history for office files despite enabling the "let office 2016 handle od4b files" (don't know the English text, we use a German version)
So there is no collaboration possible for files being synced with the OneDrive?
- Salvatore BiscariNov 16, 2016Silver Contributor
From https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Get-started-syncing-SharePoint-sites-with-the-new-OneDrive-sync-client-Preview-6de9ede8-5b6e-4503-80b2-6190f3354a88?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US :
- When syncing libraries that require check out, or libraries with required columns or metadata, the files are synced as read-only. If you do make changes to these files, the changes will not be synced back to Office 365.
- Version history is lost when moving Office files locally across sites. To move Office files to another site, go to Office 365 and use "Copy to" to copy your files to another site.
- Realtime coauthoring is supported with Office 2016 (C2R build 16.0.7167.2xxx or MSI build 16.0.4432.100x).- AKIMFNov 18, 2016Iron Contributor
Thanks for your reply.
Check-in / check-out functionality should be available through the odfb client as well.
In this case you can roll out SharePoint access to your users without having the need to use the website / teamsite.
This helps a lot in scenarios, where users shall not know their credentials.