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New OneDrive for Business roadmap

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Some great announcements from the Ignite conference last week coming to OneDrive for Business. The good news is the OneDrive for Business roadmap appears to cover quite a bit of areas around improving reliability, performance, configuration, better features, better security, removing limits, and consolidating sync clients for OneDrive.

 

What was announced that is potentially slated for a future release?

  • Selective Sync – selectively select and unselect what you want to sync locally

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  • Merging the Consumer OneDrive Sync and OneDrive for Business Sync clients into one client
  • Reliable Sync

OneDrive consumer sync protocol is now used for OneDrive for Business, sync scale, sync repair

 

Other key things which are potentially slated:

  • 20,000 file limit is being removed
  • 10GB file upload and sync
  • Diskspace is no longer double caching (sync storage space same as file sizes)
  • Install size Sync reduction – 10s MBs now down from 1.2 GB
  • Block personal sync from managed device
  • Block unmanaged sync from an unmanaged device
  • Migrate existing users to new sync client seamlessly

 

When can I get this new client?

TAP program is slated for September and RTM slated for end of the year (Q4) for both PC and Mac

 

Where can I watch these Ignite OneDrive for Business roadmap sessions?

There are two great sessions from the OneDrive for Business team - Rueben Krippner here and Jason Moore here.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    @Sean - Yes, drive mapping was not mentioned in those sessions but it has been raised numerous times so they have awareness around it. As of right now, there are a few useful 3rd party OneDrive for Business drive mapping products or you can check out a few OneDrive drive mapping samples I posted on my other post here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/educloud/archive/2014/06/04/onedrive-for-business-faq.aspx
  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    @markustr - I didn't see it mentioned in the session so I am not sure.
  • Anonymous
    May 11, 2015
    Update 5-11-15: Great new roadmap information. Please see the OneDrive for Business roadmap post here
  • Anonymous
    May 11, 2015
    Any word on a solution for those EDU clients like us that have many lab/shared computers where sync isn't really an option. Our users (especially students) tend to not use the same computer throughout the day but still need access to their files through Windows Explorer as we have old/antiquated apps that rely on a link appearing through Windows Explorer.

    I added a thought to the uservoice site about this as well but was hoping someone might know if there's anything happening in that specific use-case.
  • Anonymous
    May 19, 2015
    According to the post the limit of 20'000 files will be slated. This is obviously the limit imposed on the OneDrive for Business Library. What I am unsure about is the limit of 5'000 files of the old client when synchronizing a SharePoint Site Library. Is this limit also gone with the new version?
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    May 31, 2015
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  • Anonymous
    June 03, 2015
    This is awesome news, But End of year? so far away :(
  • Anonymous
    June 10, 2015
    Any info/update about the ODFB mobile clients for any mobile os (Windows/Android/iOS)?
  • Anonymous
    June 15, 2015
    My local Microsoft representative tells me that there's no TAP for OneDrive for Business. How shall we proceed to join the program? Thanks
  • Anonymous
    July 03, 2015
    Will the new OD4B Sync client be claims aware?
  • Anonymous
    July 24, 2015
    Is there any word on whether most of these (the 20k limit in particular) new features also be made available for OneDrive for Personal? Can we assume it will.. I'm actually deciding whether to go with a competitor now or wait till the end of the year for Microsoft to fix the ugly 20k limit
  • Anonymous
    July 25, 2015
    @Johannes - those clients already exist for iOS, Android and Windows Phone - download them now and you have access to both Consumer and Business in one client. @ Guillaume - not sure if the TAP is launched yet. @ AL - yes, it will support Oauth 2.0. @ Seb - OneDrive consumer already has this. OneDrive for Business will have this. There are only two options.
  • Anonymous
    July 28, 2015
    Mark, thanks for the update. Do you know if the selective sync will be the same for other devices (e.g. phones and tablets) as the auto sync could use a lot of the storage space on those devices?
  • Anonymous
    August 24, 2015
    Can't wait for the 20.000 items limit to be removed. What a joke this has been for a professional sync tool.
  • Anonymous
    August 31, 2015
    Will the new Android oriOS clients be able to connect to on premise solution without Office 365 subscription ? (like other on premise sync solutions...)
  • Anonymous
    September 03, 2015
    Hi @Markga, are you still on schedule as posted in early May? I.e. for a TAP in September and release this year?
  • Anonymous
    September 05, 2015
    @Markga, I'm really waiting on the new sync tool because with our Onedrive with a few of 100s of gigs it's not that fun to sync everything. So selective sync would be GREAT. Are you still on schedule? Were can we find te progress?
  • Anonymous
    September 09, 2015
    Since the current Onedrive for Business client no longer works with the new GM version of El Capitan, access to a beta of this new client would be really helpful now.
  • Anonymous
    September 12, 2015
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  • Anonymous
    September 14, 2015
    Hello, any news regarding the TAP program's start? Thanks, hope we can start working together to improve ODfB's next release ASAP! :-)
  • Anonymous
    September 21, 2015
    We are on the TAP program. When we try to install the new sync client, it is not recognizing our Corporate Microsoft account, thus we are not able to proceed further with the testing. I've written to the TAP team last week but there's no reply yet. Raised a case with Microsoft, they have suggested to post here.
  • Anonymous
    September 24, 2015
    Any news about the onedrive for business, with the launch of office 2016 and windows 10 i completly lost on how i could setup a onedrive link to our office 365 license.
  • Anonymous
    September 29, 2015
    Dear @Markga, we are really lost in how to set up one drive in combination with our office 365 license. Please give us an update. My company is considering to move away from Microsoft but I don't want it.
  • Anonymous
    September 29, 2015
    @santha - i am not with the product team i would post to the OneDrive blog.onedrive.com. @Guillaume - stay tuned should have something @Christope - see my other blog on how to use OneDrive for Business:http://blogs.technet.com/b/educloud/archive/2014/06/04/onedrive-for-business-faq.aspx
  • Anonymous
    September 30, 2015
    Hi is possible automate the nexts steps after deployment. Like the question "Which Library do you want to sync?"
  • Anonymous
    October 01, 2015
    Hi,
    News about auditing who has viewed / opened a shared file with mandatory login with a Microsoft account ? You know this function is very interesting as it pushes the adoption of Microsoft accounts by those that are using other solutions and is great for us in order to measure the interest of people on the documents we share.
  • Anonymous
    October 13, 2015
    Is there any conflict between this and ODB which come with Office 365 ProPlus? Or shall we install this new sync client after installing O365?
  • Anonymous
    October 20, 2015
    A NEW BETA CLIENT IS AVAILABLE!

    At this moment I'm testing with a client that works with Mac and works great!
    Good performance, no problems with sync. I'm much happier now.
    I'm using Office 365 business.

    You can register for the Beta:
    https://preview.onedrive.com/sync
  • Anonymous
    October 22, 2015
    May I ask what mean by "personal sync from managed device"?
  • Anonymous
    December 08, 2015
    Please upgrade OneDrive for Business WEB INTERFACE too. OneDrive Business Web interface don't exists good features like ONEDRIVE PERSONAL(free) version. For example, if you share a folder with external users, they cannot download multiple files and they cannot download folder as zip. So, it's mean, you cannot use as sharing tool OneDrive Business. You can use as garbage.
  • Anonymous
    March 12, 2016
    Any plans to add capability to sync shared files, files posted to Team Sites, or files posted to Office 365 Groups? OneDrive for Business' current inability to sync these files is forcing us to look elsewhere for a cloud drive for team usage.
    • Anonymous
      April 06, 2016
      Thanks for your interest David! Our next update cycle for the Next Gen Sync Client starts in the next few weeks. Keep an eye on http://blogs.office.com and http://blog.onedrive.com for announcements and I will cross-post them on this blog as well.
  • Anonymous
    May 13, 2016
    Could we have an update?The 20000 files limit on OneDrive is already removed or not?? Someone have news about this point?Many thanks in advance.Elisbeth
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      May 31, 2016
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    April 13, 2017
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      May 03, 2017
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