Software Requirements OneDrive for Business works well with all major, current web browsers. Just point your browser to to get started. OneDrive for Business also comes with the ability to sync your files and folders to your desktop or mobile device. Outline Table of operating system, sync client and the link to download the software.
I think there have been new mobile app updates to onedrive. I think there is now mac onedrive for business. It would be great to get off google drive. BUT, can you share a folder in onedrive/onedrive for business AND see it on other team members desktop/mobile apps?
Operating System Sync Client Link Windows 7, 8, 8RT, 8.1 OneDrive for Business Application (Recommend: 32-bit Version) Mac OS with Office 2008, Office 2011 Office Document Connection Linux or Unix-based Systems No current application iOS 6.0+ OneDrive Pro for Business for All Office Mobile for Students OneDrive for Business Windows Mobile 8 OneDrive for Business Android No current application for Faculty/Staff Office Mobile for Students. . Windows . Once the App is installed, press the Windows key and then click or tap on the OneDrive for Business App. It is possible to have both OneDrive (for personal use) and OneDrive for Business (for Georgia Tech use) on your computer at the same time, the GT Office 365 implementation uses OneDrive for Business. Sync OneDrive for Business to your Windows Computer You can sync your OneDrive for Business library to your computer, and then work with files in the library by using Windows Explorer. Updates to files sync to OneDrive for Business whenever you're online.
The simplest way to sync your OneDrive library is to go to your OneDrive in a browser of your choice and then click the SYNC button. This opens the Sync Library wizard, and automatically recognizes the name and web address of your OneDrive library. Click Sync Now to start syncing your OneDrive.
Click Show my files in the dialog box to open your synced OneDrive for Business folder in Windows Explorer. In Windows Explorer, your synced OneDrive is listed in your Favorites in a folder named 'OneDrive @ Georgia Institute of Technology' You can also start the Sync Library wizard from the OneDrive for Business menu in your Windows notification area: Limits on syncing content in OneDrive for Business and other SharePoint libraries Note the following limitations related to syncing libraries to your computer with OneDrive for Business:. You can sync up to 20,000 items in your OneDrive for Business library, including folders and files.
You can sync up to 5,000 items in other SharePoint libraries, including folders and files. In any library, you can download files up to 2 GB. Customize How You Sync Your Documents You can change the location where your files are stored by clicking on Change in your OneDrive for Business application. If you want to sync a different set of Office 365 files, click Sync A Different Library Instead and then provide the URL of the library. You'll be prompted for an account and password that can access that library.
Checking the Status of Your Files A green check on a folder means that it has been successfully synced. A blue circular arrow means it is currently being synced. A red arrow indicates a folder or file that is out of sync.
Once the file synchronization starts you can click on the Show My Files button and open the local folder to see the files that are being synced. Mac There is not a OneDrive for Business Application for OSX, but the Microsoft Document Connection Application can be used to connect to your OneDrive for Business Documents. Connect to OneDrive for Business in your web browser via the smart URL:. Copy part of the URL from the address line of your browser. Copy the URL up to the word ' Documents'.
For example:. Launch the Microsoft Document Connection. On the first launch of the application you will need to set up a new location that will connect to your OneDrive for Business Documents Library.
Click on Add Location and choose Connect to a SharePoint Site. Enter the partial URL that you copied from your web browser earlier. You will be prompted to login to Office 365 and then you will be prompted to login to the Georgia Tech Login Service. You will then be taken to your Document library. Click on the file you want to edit, then click on the Edit button on the tool bar.
If Document Connection can't figure out what application to open a file with, you will be prompted to select the appropriate application. When you are done editing you just save the file like normal and it will save the changes back to OneDrive for Business. IOS App Go to the App Store and install the OneDrive for Business for Office 365 app. Using the OneDrive for Business Web App Launch a web browser and go to and log in with [email protected] If you are already logged into Office 365 you can click on the OneDrive link on the Office 365 tool bar to see your documents library. From here you can manage files and folders in your OneDrive. Clicking the ' to the right of a file or folder will allow you to see more information about it. You can open the document for editing, change sharing options, add to workflows or view the object properites. Editing a document will launch the appropriate software on your local computer or the web based version of the application if it's not installed on the local computer.
Some browsers will warn you of this action as possibly malicious activity. You can check the Remember my choice box to avoid seeing this every time you choose to edit an item. Clicking Launch Application should start the program and open your document for editing. If you choose Edit in Browser or View in Browser from the ' menu, you will launch the ' web app' version of the appropriate application inside your browser window. When you are editing in the web app your changes are automatically saved when you close the web app. Creating a New Folder or Document. Navigate to your OneDrive for Business.
Select the 'new document' link. Select New folder or a document type from the list. Name your new folder or file and get started collaborating! Collaborating More than one person can have a shared file open at the same time, this will be indicated one of two ways. If you have the document open in the installed application on your computer, there should be an indicator at the bottom of the application window similar to this: Clicking on the icon will display a list of the users that have the document open for editing. When changes are made to a document by one user they are noted in the Web App by an icon. If you mouse over the icon it will tell you that changes have been made to the document and that saving the document will refresh and show you those changes.
OneDrive is the one place for everything in your life. It gives you free online storage for all your personal files, so you can access them from your Mac and any other devices you use – iPhone, iPad, PC, Windows Phone or Android. With OneDrive for Business, you also get storage for your work files so you can share and collaborate on them with other people at your work or school/university.
The OneDrive app for Mac makes it easy to work with your OneDrive files on your Mac:.Access your OneDrive files directly from the Finder, including attachments that you’ve saved to OneDrive from Outlook.com, and documents and spreadsheets that you’ve created from Office Online.Work with your OneDrive files even when you’re offline. Your changes will sync automatically the next time you’re online.Choose the folders in your OneDrive that you want to sync on your Mac.Add several files or folders to OneDrive at a time by dragging them to the OneDrive folder. By putting your files in OneDrive, you can access them from anywhere and have a backup in case something happens to your computer.Easily open, edit and create docs and other files in OneDrive from applications such as Word or Excel.
Thank you for using OneDrive. Along with our usual updates to bring you the latest performance improvements and bug fixes, we have the following new features that will be gradually rolling out to users: The OneDrive Activity Center has been modernized to improve ease of use and understanding. We've changed the 'Report a Problem' option in the menu to 'Send Feedback'. You can now tell us what you like or dislike, or suggest a feature you've always wanted in OneDrive. We're listening!.
18.111.0603 Aug 3, 2018. Thank you for using OneDrive.
Along with our usual updates to bring you the latest performance improvements and bug fixes, we have the following new features that will be gradually rolled out to users: When you open an Office document that's synced to your computer, it opens ready for real-time collaboration. Office documents that are synced to a computer can be shared from within the Office applications. Right-clicking the OneDrive cloud now opens the context menu within the Activity Centre. Version number has now been moved onto the about tab of the preferences, rather than its own window. 18.044.0301 Apr 9, 2018.
We've added context menus for OneDrive! Just right-click on your file or folder to see the new options. To turn on the context menu, enable OneDrive Finder Extensions and restart macOS or Finder after the update. Speaking of another feature you've all been asking for, you can now share a file or folder from the context menu.
It works for both personal and work or education accounts!. The activity center has been updated to provide more detailed information, such as where the file was downloaded from or uploaded to. We've also increased the maximum file path limit for your work or education OneDrive. We've made more improvements to sync reliability – hooray!. Fixed the macOS 10.9 issue that was causing OneDrive to crash. We're aware of some users on macOS 10.13 having issues - and are working on a fix for the next update.
17.3.6916 Jun 21, 2017. We've added context menus for OneDrive! Just right-click on your file or folder to see the new options. To turn on the context menu, enable OneDrive Finder Extensions and restart macOS or Finder after the update. Speaking of another feature you've all been asking for, you can now share a file or folder from the context menu. It works for both personal and work or education accounts!. The activity center has been updated to provide more detailed information, such as where the file was downloaded from or uploaded to.
We've also increased the maximum file path limit for your work or education OneDrive. We've made more improvements to sync reliability – hooray! We're aware of users hitting issues on OS X 10.9 and will have a fix out asap. 17.3.6798 Mar 8, 2017.
You can now sync SharePoint Sites with the OneDrive client. For more information, please go to (. Fixed a major issue that caused the client to not start up properly for users after an update. We're sorry for the inconvenience!
For folks who still continue to have issues with the application, please follow this link (to report a problem, and include 'MacSync' in the description. Thank you for your patience as we continue to address these issues. 17.3.6725.0105 Jan 9, 2017. MKB58, the Pesonal One Drive account works very well I have experience with both the Personal One Drive as part of my 365 subscription and on a SharePoint work account. My personal account works almost flawlessly. I almost never have trouble with it.
Every once in awhile (actually quite rarely) I have to log back in, but that has always been problem free as well. If I were rating that alone, I would give it 5 stars. I also have a SharePoint account through the university I work at. That account is a constant head ache. I keep getting booted off, and logging back in frequently fails. It doesn’t work with my documents manager on my iPad well at all.
I finally gave up and moved everything to my Personal 365 One Drive, and abandoned my SharePoint account. Everything works well for me now on my Personal 365 One Drive. With the TB of storage, even with all of my work documents, I don’t have any issues.
So I don’t know how much of the SharePoint problem was with my university vs MS. Given how well my personal account works, I think it is probably something to do with how the university manages their end, but that is purely speculation. Bottom line, One Drive as an integrated part of my 365 account works very well, and I will continue it, and would recommend it.
MKB58, the Pesonal One Drive account works very well I have experience with both the Personal One Drive as part of my 365 subscription and on a SharePoint work account. My personal account works almost flawlessly. I almost never have trouble with it. Every once in awhile (actually quite rarely) I have to log back in, but that has always been problem free as well. If I were rating that alone, I would give it 5 stars. I also have a SharePoint account through the university I work at.
That account is a constant head ache. I keep getting booted off, and logging back in frequently fails. It doesn’t work with my documents manager on my iPad well at all. I finally gave up and moved everything to my Personal 365 One Drive, and abandoned my SharePoint account. Everything works well for me now on my Personal 365 One Drive.
With the TB of storage, even with all of my work documents, I don’t have any issues. So I don’t know how much of the SharePoint problem was with my university vs MS. Given how well my personal account works, I think it is probably something to do with how the university manages their end, but that is purely speculation. Bottom line, One Drive as an integrated part of my 365 account works very well, and I will continue it, and would recommend it. JayInAz, 'Works' but compared to other solutions it's a very poor experience.
The user experience with this application is so 'blah' it's not even funny. The first few iterations of OneDrive were barely passable as a sync tool for SharePoint. With all the rave reviews on this application I'm really curious what horrible software people live with that makes this look good. The user experience of other applications like DropBox is very good and well integrated with the OS. As an example a simple right-click and you have a link to email off to someone as a one-time access or direct link if it is shared. OneDrive has no concept of a file repository with a local synced copy. It is simply a basic file sync tool for the fledgeling SharePoint experience.
I'm sure if you don't use SharePoint in a corporate environment and use OneDrive to sync your local Micro$soft application documents it's a beautiful thing. However, in the corporate setting where we are basically forced to use SharePoint this tool does nothing more than get a local copy on your computer without any other interaction which is pitiful. Add to the list is the 'processing' message that doesn't go away after you open the app along with no 'pause' button. It's really the simple things that matter with user experience and I know M$ doesn't make any money licensing OneDrive so it will undoutably remain pitifully featuerd behind its peers. JayInAz, 'Works' but compared to other solutions it's a very poor experience.
The user experience with this application is so 'blah' it's not even funny. The first few iterations of OneDrive were barely passable as a sync tool for SharePoint. With all the rave reviews on this application I'm really curious what horrible software people live with that makes this look good. The user experience of other applications like DropBox is very good and well integrated with the OS. As an example a simple right-click and you have a link to email off to someone as a one-time access or direct link if it is shared.
OneDrive has no concept of a file repository with a local synced copy. It is simply a basic file sync tool for the fledgeling SharePoint experience. I'm sure if you don't use SharePoint in a corporate environment and use OneDrive to sync your local Micro$soft application documents it's a beautiful thing. However, in the corporate setting where we are basically forced to use SharePoint this tool does nothing more than get a local copy on your computer without any other interaction which is pitiful. Add to the list is the 'processing' message that doesn't go away after you open the app along with no 'pause' button. It's really the simple things that matter with user experience and I know M$ doesn't make any money licensing OneDrive so it will undoutably remain pitifully featuerd behind its peers.
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BadCloud2, Updates are locking me out I am disappointed and frustrated by the last two updates. OneDrive had been working well for me for 6 months in syncing work files between my work computer and my home computer.
Recently, after updating the OneDrive app at home, the update prompted me to sign into my organization again, but it couldn’t “locate” a place to sync my files. Basically, it couldn’t detect that I already had OneDrive installed and was trying to create a OneDrive folder again. It wouldn’t sync my existing folders, and instead gave me a repeated error message (“Your OneDrive folder can’t be created in the location you selected: Try a different location. Make sure that the location isn't on a removable drive, or on a disk that has a case-sensitive format”). The first time that this happened, I managed to work around it by force-quitting OneDrive, uninstalling it, wiping the existing local OneDrive folder on my home computer, and then reinstalling OneDrive as though setting it up on a new computer.
That may have been a fluke because a few months later, I encountered the same problem with a new update. I’ve been going through the same process—and it’s not working.
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In short, I’m unable to use OneDrive on my home Mac. It’s currently useless to me, and my only recourse now is to migrate content to another cloud service.
I reported this to Support the first time. I’m going to report it again. BadCloud2, Updates are locking me out I am disappointed and frustrated by the last two updates. OneDrive had been working well for me for 6 months in syncing work files between my work computer and my home computer. Recently, after updating the OneDrive app at home, the update prompted me to sign into my organization again, but it couldn’t “locate” a place to sync my files.
Basically, it couldn’t detect that I already had OneDrive installed and was trying to create a OneDrive folder again. It wouldn’t sync my existing folders, and instead gave me a repeated error message (“Your OneDrive folder can’t be created in the location you selected: Try a different location. Make sure that the location isn't on a removable drive, or on a disk that has a case-sensitive format”). The first time that this happened, I managed to work around it by force-quitting OneDrive, uninstalling it, wiping the existing local OneDrive folder on my home computer, and then reinstalling OneDrive as though setting it up on a new computer. That may have been a fluke because a few months later, I encountered the same problem with a new update. I’ve been going through the same process—and it’s not working. In short, I’m unable to use OneDrive on my home Mac.
It’s currently useless to me, and my only recourse now is to migrate content to another cloud service. I reported this to Support the first time. I’m going to report it again.
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