

The feature was very easy to set up and involves just a few steps. Open the settings options of your OneDrive for Business client. It came in handy last week for one of my clients who run Macs and don’t have a business version of Office 365 since their parent organisation runs hosted exchange through another provider. Since the shared folder appears to be inside your own OneDrive, the feature works on all versions of the app – PC, Mac, iOS, Android and Windows Phone. Any changes are uploaded to OneDrive and appear for all users who access the folder. At the prompt, select Sync Now to start the sync app client (wizard). Select the folder by right-clicking or ticking the circle in the top right of the folder. Select the folder or file you wish to sync and click the Sync icon. Once added, these folders can be synced to computers and devices. To sync OneDrive for Business libraries to your computer so you can access it via a folder in your File Explorer, you’ll start from OneDrive for Business on the web. The new feature allows users of the consumer version of OneDrive to add folders that have been shared with them to their own OneDrive. As far as I can tell, it’s no longer called co-owners, though the concept is still the same. Microsoft announced the feature back in February 2014 and called it Co-Owners. Finding the link to go back to the 'Classic UI' in OneDrive.

Click on 'Return to classic OneDrive' in the lower left-hand corner. In a browser, navigate to your OneDrive for Business location.
#Onedrive for business shared folder sync update#
Microsoft delivered on a long awaited feature of OneDrive last week – the syncing of shared folders. But you can also customise which folders you sync and back up for viewing on and offline Remember you can only sync Folders You can update and share your files from any device with OneDrive The OneDrive sync client is included with every edition of Windows 10, allowing you to keep a local copy of files and folders stored in either OneDrive or OneDrive for Business. First you need to gather the proper URL to use for the connection string.
