

OneDrive for Business had its fair share of sync issues but now the new OneDrive client includes the ability to sync SharePoint sites its time to ensure you are using it. With Microsoft SharePoint Online and SharePoint Online you can get files in both SharePoint libraries and OneDrive for Business to synchronize automatically. It will prompt you to sign into your Office 365 account and ask to verify what you want to sync.Ĩ – After a few minutes you will now see the new sync client active. There are a large number is issues syncing Sharepoint Online libraries via OneDrive - least of all having to have a copy of all those files on your PC. This user can view the folder and its files from SharePoint document library, but the user cannot download. After you assign the View-only permission to the user. Then select Stop Inheriting Permissions to create Unique permission for this folder.

#SHAREPOINT ONEDRIVE SYNC INSTALL#
Right lets first unlink sites from the old OneDrive, install the new client and enable the new client on our SharePoint site.ġ – Unlink any sites and accounts from your OneDrive for business client and disable it from starting during start-up.Ģ – Next install the latest OneDrive client from here ģ – Now log into as a tenant administrator and click into the Admin portal.Ĥ – Expand Admin Centers from the left hand menu and click into SharePointĥ – Click on settings and scroll down the options until you find ‘Sync Client for SharePoint’ Set the option to ‘Start the new client’Ħ – Next scroll to the bottom of the page and click ok to save the changes.ħ – You may have to wait a few minutes but now you can click on the sync button on any site document library to launch the new OneDrive client. In Details panel > Manage access> Advanced to enter the permission page of this folder. Click on a file and it opens on demand directly from SharePoint, brilliant!
#SHAREPOINT ONEDRIVE SYNC WINDOWS#
My favourite is on-demand files which means having all of your folders and files visible from windows but without having to sync them. Its a much improved sync client and has some great new features coming over the next couple of months. Get rid of OneDrive for Business and start using the new OneDrive client to sync both your personal OneDrive and your SharePoint sites. Enable the New OneDrive Client on SharePointĪlways having issues with synced SharePoint sites? constantly getting calls to the helpdesk to sort out the red circle of doom?
