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The steps to getting OD4B next gen sync client rolled out?
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).
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.