Onedrive For Business Sync Mac

Hi, Has anyone ever got OneDrive-for-business to sync with the OneDrive app on an Apple MAC? Our client is struggling to do so but we only have PC's onsite, so testing is hard and we're running out of things to try. You can’t use the OneDrive for Business sync client and only choose to sync certain folders. It will only sync the entire library or nothing. But fear not, the point of this blog is to offer a few viable solutions as stop gaps until Microsoft adds this functionality.

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To make sure that users sync OneDrive files only on managed computers, you can configure OneDrive to sync only on PCs that are joined to specific domains.

To allow syncing only on PCs joined to specific domains

Note

These settings apply to SharePoint sites as well as OneDrive.

1. Sign in to the OneDrive admin center as a global or SharePoint admin, and select Sync in the left pane.

2. Select the Allow syncing only on PCs joined to specific domains check box.

3. Click Add domains.

4. Add the GUID of each domain for the member computers that you want to be able to sync.

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Make sure to add the domain GUID of the computer domain membership. If users are in a separate domain, only the domain GUID that the computer account is joined to is required.

Important

This setting is only applicable to Active Directory domains. It does not apply to Azure AD domains. If you have devices which are only Azure AD joined, consider using a Conditional Access Policy instead.

5. If you want to prevent Mac OS users from syncing entirely, select the Block sync on Mac OS check box.

6. Click Save on the Sync page.

For info about setting this sync app restriction by using PowerShell, see Set-SPOTenantSyncClientRestriction

By Malcolm Owen
Friday, January 04, 2019, 08:40 am PT (11:40 am ET)

Microsoft has started to roll out Files On-Demand for Mac, a function of Office 2019 that allows users to see all of their files held in OneDrive storage from the Mac desktop, with documents downloaded from the cloud only when they are required.


Initially announced in September, the Files On-Demand feature is now being rolled out as a full feature. According to Microsoft's product roadmap for Files On-Demand for macOS Mojave, the status has been updated to 'Rolling out' as of Thursday, and is being provided to Mac users of OneDrive for Business.
It is unclear how long it will take before all OneDrive for Business customers will gain access to the function, nor if it will be made available to non-business subscribers of Microsoft's Office 365 suite anytime soon. It will be made available as part of the regular OneDrive sync client, reportsThurrott.
Files On-Demand allows users the ability to navigate their OneDrive cloud storage through their computer's existing file management system, which for the Mac is Finder. The OneDrive storage appears as an APFS-formatted volume in macOS Mojave, as if they are kept locally, but in fact users see placeholder versions of files that take minimal space on the Mac. On needing to access a file, OneDrive downloads it to the Mac and replaces the placeholder.
In theory, Files On-Demand will save users with constrained local storage capacity from wasting too much on files that are not always needed. While files that are frequently required can be kept on the local drive, the less-used versions will still seem to be available to users, but instead are stored in the cloud for later retrieval.