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SharePoint without Sync (Advice Needed)
Our biggest challenge with SharePoint is how to roll it out to End Users with no SharePoint Experience (many of these users are engineers/site based on slow(ish) internet connections. We have lar...
One other option to consider is the newer View SharePoint Files with File Explorer in Microsoft Edge - this will let your users navigate the cloud using the familiar File Explorer interface to traverse your folder structure, then work on the cloud versions of the files WITHOUT the need to sync - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/SharePoint/sharepoint-view-in-edge
This is the exact behaviour we want, a way to browse a SharePoint site without the overheads/issues of "sync"
The main issues here are
- the stability of the webdav connection ... it works when you open it, but you can't store and reliably return to it.
- From my understanding and discussions with Microsoft support, any use of the webdav connection is not recommended.
The issue with this is that
- it use the webdav login which is not recommended
- You can't store this link (we've tried and the login session gets dropped randomly)