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OneDrive for Business Share Experience on Local PC
When our business users go to OneDrive for Business Synced Path on their Local PC and select folder they want to share and click on Share button it opens a new browser tab and prompts them to login to Onedrive. Is it expected behaviour can't they share Onedrive for business contents from their local drive. I was expecting Share window to comeup on their local PC instead of users logging into web version. Is there a specific configuration that needs to be done for users to share content directly from their Local PC.
Salvatore Biscari any thoughts?
In reference to this article: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/sync-files-with-the-onedrive-sync-client-in-windows-615391c4-2bd3-4aae-a42a-858262e42a49
You might need to manually start the onedrive client if you did in fact install the new one already on the machine per this Screenshot.
But that link has the instructions for setting up. If it doesn't automatically sync the files to the new client, you might end up having to Stop sync of the old client. Delete the files from that OneDrive for business folder. Then setup the OneDrive client which will create a new by default OneDrive Orgname folder in your user folder.
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When you say "Share button", do you mean right-click the file and choose Share with OneDrive, or what?
Are we speaking of Windows 10?
Sorry, maybe my question was not clear...
I understood that your users want to share from File Explorer files/folders which are synced locally on their PCs.
I wanted to make sure that they are right-clicking a file/folder in File Explorer and choosing from the context menu "Share with Onedive" (which has a little blue cloud in front of it). Am I correct?
It's working just fine on my machine, I can right-click either a file or a folder, select the Share button and it will bring the familiar ODFB share window. Version 2018 (build 18.044.0301.0006).
Afaik there are no settings that control this behavior...
Hello Vasil
Appreciate your response. I downloaded the latest build 18.065.0329.0002 from Microsoft release notes and reinstalled client on User's PC . Surprisingly we still have the same issue. Is there a way to check build number for OneDriveforBusiness client and confirm if it's upgraded to latest build?
Thanks
- Sounds like a OneDrive version issue. You have to have the Next Gen Sync, and obviously Online OneDrive for Business which I assume is being used. I don't have the exact Next Gen version that went to the new UI method but make sure it's updating.
Which client and version are on that machine you are getting that experience on?
