Allow external OneDrive for Business users to sync folders
My users frequently want to share folders with external users (customers or partners) and are frustrated to find that these users can't sync the shared folders to their own filesystem. This functionality is widely used in competing solutions, and the limitation is significant enough to keep my users from leveraging OneDrive.
Clinton Campbell
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We are excited that B2B sync is now available in Production. This feature allows a user to sync folders that have been shared with them from another organization. For more information see this article: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/b2b-sync.
90 comments
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Anonymous
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this would be a very good enhancement. Lack of this ability forces us to use other products when working with external users.
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dave
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"Thinking about it"? This is a joke, right? The fact that OneDrive/SharePoint can't do this out of the box anymore is testament to the fact that Microsoft devs are completely out of touch with the real world....
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Anonymous
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It should be enabled. Also enable individual file sync feature which is not there yet.
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Anonymous
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This is a significant barrier to using SharePoint/OneDrive. We operate it in a charity with Trustees, who are all volunteers, employed elsewhere. After many problems sharing, we have now discovered that they cannot synchronise the files, which means they can only access online. If the MS business plan is to ensure that more licenses are purchased, I do not believe this will work. As many others have noted, there are other solutions that work seamlessly.
I support the plea for Microsoft to make this more flexible and user-friendly. It is also notable that the support staff are not trained on this and have to spend a lot of time working through the issue to discover that it does not work. I am left feeling like a beta-tester, wasting my time on a solution that should work. -
Anonymous
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Please Please Please
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Anonymous
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We have a lot of projects with external clients and now they are frustrated with this external collaboration issues since they could not do their job well. We are fully agree with you to push MS to enable this feature ASAP
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Anonymous
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Definitely. Opening up this functionality would seem to put OneDrive up to par with other similar cloud products. As always, we need to be mindful of confidential documents, or other sensitive information. Perhaps different colored folders may alert to externally shared folders, to signal the need for more caution when quickly dragging/dropping files.
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Paula
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Yes
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Anonymous
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Yes. It is important for our work to share folders and documents through OneDrive with our shareholders.
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Mary Amini
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Absolutely Yes. This is a key requirement and presently very painful for all concerned to have to re-establish external collaborator credentials on respective folders in One Drive. A vote shouldn't be necessary with Microsoft as this is a monumental requirement and should be provided as a standard. Thank you
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Anonymous
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Yes, this is highly needed functionality in OneDrive. Other similar products in the market offers this option, OneDrive should follow this practice.
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Danny Munoz
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My vote is 100% for the use of external OneDrive for Business. It is Expedient for an International organization such as The World Bank Group, to be able to function and do business in a flawless manner when sharing data with its external partners, donors & Clients.
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Anonymous
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I am voting in favor of external OneDrive for business users. This feature will enable us to seamlessly and effectively collaborate with external clients.
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Luan Thanh Luong
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Yes, this feature is the most important one when sharing data with external. Without this feature, there are too many steps required to edit just small content in a document.
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Anonymous
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Yes. This will be useful.
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Lynn
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Yes, I do have the same issue and I do vote for this feature as it is a major barrier for us to be able to effectively collaborate with our external stakeholders who just use OneDrive Personal account. Please kindly enable this feature ASAP. Looking forward to having this feature soon. Thank you.
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Anonymous
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Yes, I do confirm. This functionality is very important for our work
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Cuong Vu
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Yes, this functionality is very important for our work. I know that other cloud storages allow us to do this. Thanks!
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Jane
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Yes please add this functionality. External clients want to work as we do with their shared data.
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Shamil Hani
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This is very important especially for those who have weak or limited internet connection
