Mac users can't share at all from the OneDrive virtual drive in the Finder. That means you can't collaborate on documents opened from that local virtual drive, share it from within an Office 2016 app, or access email attachments stored there from your other devices. Instead, they see it as only a local drive. But the rest of the Office 2016 apps don't see that local OneDrive virtual drive as an alias to the central cloud repository.
Like iOS and Android users, but unlike Mac users, Windows users can initiate sharing from the OneDrive virtual drive in File Explorer. Before, you had to go to the Office 365 website or, for Office documents only, use the Office 2016 productivity apps to open and save them. You can also save and open files from the virtual drive.īelieve it or not, on the Mac this is a new capability for OneDrive's business users. Once that "next generation" OneDrive is going, you'll get the basic OneDrive functionality, such as the ability to drag files in and out as if you were working with an external drive.
OneDrive is barely functional on Mac, a bit moreso in Windows Windows users must also convert either the new or existing personal OneDrive apps using some registry trickery - installing the revised OneDrive app is not sufficient, bizarrely.įor both Mac and Windows users, the current convert-based setup is a bit convoluted, so I advise only power users try to do it. But if you don't want to wait, Mac users can convert the existing, personal-only OneDrive app to support business storage, if they're willing to do a minor amount of Terminal use. The new Windows OneDrive client is available for download, while the Mac version is pending review in the Mac App Store (both are free). OneDrive: A tricky setup for immediate adopters Now, the OneDrive app that used to support only personal accounts will support your Office 365 business accounts, too - as it already does on iOS and Android. Gone in both Windows and OS X is the OneDrive for Business app, which on the Mac hasn't worked since late spring. But if you use Windows 8.1 - the first workable version of Windows 8 for enterprise - you can't access the OneDrive for Office 365 functionality Microsoft won't have Windows 8.1 compatibility until spring 2016, it says. First, the good news: If you have Windows 8, 9, or 10, or OS X 10.9 Mavericks or later, you can run the native OneDrive app to create a virtual drive on your computer for accessing files directly from your apps.
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