OneDrive Mac questions…..

[Mike Lloyd-Jones]

Ok, I’ve got a company with a number of Macs running various flavours of MacOS from 10.14 to Ventura. The users all have M365 Business Basic licences so no Office apps included and I’ve deployed the ODFB client to all Macs.

They have a pre- existing M365 Family licence (!) and they also have Office Mac 2016 and 2019 retail licences. These apps are running on their various Macs currently. They don’t want the expense, ideally, of upgrading all users to M365 Business Standard licences.

Question - is this going to work? So if a user creates a doc in Office 2016/2019/M365 Family are they going to be able to save these direct to the OneDrive folder and will they still sync ok?

In the past I’ve only deployed ODFB where the users have been on Business Standard licences!!

[#2]

Hi @Mike Lloyd-Jones ,

I trust you are having a nice day.

It is going to work Irrespective of the Office edition you install, ensure all users are signed in Business basic account after activating office with with the retail license or M365 family subscription so all so files will be saved to ODFB.

Regards,

[#3]

Thanks for sharing Mike!

Yes, if they save the file into the "OneDrive" folder on their mac; it should sync fine and there is a option in the Office App settings to connect to a OneDrive account.

Do note that Office 2016 for Mac is out of support; so not sure if the file history or syncing by adding a account by the settings would still work; but save us the file into the OneDrive folder will work!

Other than that, OneDrive should sync fine until Microsoft stops supporting old Mac systems for OneDrive.