Syncing SharePoint using OneDrive Client

[Alis_Klar]

I've heard conflicting reports of the best route to use to Sync a SharePoint Document Library with Windows.

 

• Older (?) method Use the Sync button. Heard this has lower performance due to the fact that the OneDrive Client steps through each library in sequence and if one fails it can affects the others?
• Newer method, Use add a Shortcut to OneDrive option which apparently has better performance.  However heard this can lead to duplicate files as people can get confused more easily as to where thing were saved. 

 

I don't really need offline access, just fast access to files from applications without having to find the right SharePoint in a browser for my users.

 

Would I be better off using something like Cloud Drive Mapper?  With drive mapper how easy is it to add new SharePoint sites?  We're still inventing new sites we need as we're just moving to centralising our storage as a Trust.

 

Once the formation of new Sites settles I envisage Cloud Drive Mapper could cope but then not sure if there are limits on the number of libraries it can connect to for a single user?

[itskdog]

The sync client has a limit of 300k files, but you'd not be wanting to get to that point anyway due to how long it would take to create all the placeholder files.

 

Microsoft's recommendation is to use "Add shortcut" to only sync the folders you need and use the web version for everything else.

 

If you're looking to use CDM anyway, I'd recommend it. Mappings are configured by you as the admin, you can just map all the document libraries you want and they will only show up if the user has access to the site, otherwise they will just be skipped.

 

There's also what they call "Dynamic" drives, where you can have all SharePoint sites and/or Teams the user is a member of in one virtual drive as subfolders. See this KB page for info on the different types of drives that can be mapped. https://cdm.iamcloud.info/docs/Content/Configuration/DriveMapping_SupportedDTs_Intro.htm