OneDrive for Business Next Generation Sync Client now available

[Arthur]

Click this link for more details.

 

Download (Windows: Installer, Deployment Package / OS X: Not yet available) / IT Deployment Guides (Windows, OS X) / Getting Started Guides (Windows, OS X) / ADMX Templates / Release Notes

 

https://blogs.office.com/2015/12/16/onedrive-for-business-update-on-storage-plans-and-next-generation-sync-client

 

Next Generation Sync Client for Windows and Mac

After a successful preview program, we are happy to report that the OneDrive for Business Next Generation Sync Client is now available for deployment. Our top priorities for this release were improved reliability and performance, as well as delivering core capabilities such as selective sync, support for large files up to 10 GB in size and removing the 20,000 file sync limit. For IT Professionals, we’ve provided the ability to silently deploy and configure the client on behalf of your end users. The OneDrive for Business Next Generation Sync Client is available for Windows 7, 8 and 10 (8.1 support will be added in the first quarter of 2016) and Mac OS X 10.9 and above. The Windows client is available today with the Mac client being available before the end of December 2015.

 

With this first release, the Next Generation Sync Client supports OneDrive for Business only, but we will add support for SharePoint document libraries in future releases. In the interim, if customers require sync for both OneDrive for Business and SharePoint document libraries, the Next Generation Sync Client is designed to work side-by-side with the existing sync client.

 

Additionally, we are actively working on other important features including Office integration to support the co-authoring of documents and sharing scenarios (planned for the second quarter of 2016), as well as a more seamless experience for users who are migrating from the existing sync client (planned for the first quarter of 2016). Go here to learn more and get started.

 

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Edited December 16, 2015 by Arthur

[browolf]

Still doesn't work on windows 8.1 :-(

[Soulfish]

The new sync client is so much better. Been using it for a few months and its fixed 99.99999% of our sync issues

[zag]

Hurray! Hopefully this will banish sync issues for good.

[gshaw]

It's been much better on my Win 10 laptop during the beta but let's face it MS couldn't have done any worse than the old Groove client which was hopeless.

 

Still doesn't help most education users though, sync is no good for shared use machines. It's not even much use for 1:1 devices if those devices only have 32GB storage!