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Former Employee

Sep 26, 2016

Announcement: Major OneDrive updates at Ignite 2016 include SharePoint Online sync preview

OneDrive and SharePoint work together to make storing and accessing all your files simple and powerful. We recently outlined a vision for file management in Office 365 that included a set of new feat...

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Bill Hixon

Copper Contributor

Oct 03, 2016

Don't look for the 'next gen sync tool preview' or you'll end up with last years announcement. This is the 'sharepoint sync preview' and the link to how to install the software is at:

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

They call it the OneDrive for Business Next Generation Sync Client, which is confusing (to me at least), since that was released last year.

Alexander Forst-Rakoczy

Brass Contributor

Oct 04, 2016

Bill Hixon wrote:
They call it the OneDrive for Business Next Generation Sync Client, which is confusing (to me at least), since that was released last year.

Pfff, after the renaming orgy of SkyDrive, OneDrive, Lync, Skype for Business, Groove, OneDrive for Business, you still get confused by a little more renaming?

:smileylol:

Bill Hixon
Copper Contributor
Oct 06, 2016
Yeah, what was I thinking. My bad.