Sync folder/files from tenant A (Sharepoint or OneDrive) to OneDrive tenant B and sync to local PC with OneDrive App installed

Question

I tried so many things, and i can only share it as link OneDrive in the Browser.. when i try to Synchronise and attach it OneDrive App its says i cannot be connected at this time...

I did this so many time with OneDrive (Personal or Family) but sharing from a Tenant is way different.

In a webbrowser, we cannot work...we want to use the Office Desktop applications without download en upload manualy.

I invited user B, from Azure Tenant A as a guest. .then i added User B as member of Sharepoint library Tenant A.

I can only work with OneDrive in a webbrowser, and i want to sync it locally.

When in the same tenant you can create shortcut to OneDrive from sharepoint library. Works perfect, but for other (external) tenants/users?

Answer 1

Hi @Wiel ,

In several official documents, we can see that OneDrive currently does not support the use of external or guest users to synchronize content. It is still recommended that you do this manually as a workaround, and please feel free to make your features suggestions on the Microsoft OneDrive Dev Platform feedback portal on UserVoice.

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Answer 2

Hi, the user needs to sync files from the other tenant.. Shared by OneDrive or Shared trough Sharepoint, whenever hes on the road, he cary all the documents, with him. A shortcut to the onedrive is not a work around and even when he is Online.. he is used to work with the Onedrive and now only for this other tenant, he needs to work in a different way like go Online, use the MFA authenticator every time to log in, Open document in desktop application... working and syncin with onedrive should also work with 2 tenants.. like it does with 1 tenant.. in this case the 2 tenants are with the same owner.. so we buyed a NCE subscription for this and we cannot cancel it any more, because the 7days grace period is over now. (It was not possible to "buy" a trial). Now its not working, ill be beter off to buy a subscription for the other tenant. I cant see why this is a problem in 365 for business. In Personal you can share so easy, and you see a linked folder in your own OneDrive, without any hassle.

Answer 3

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/troubleshoot/sync/cant-add-folder-right-now

This is exactly my problem and with the new NCE model its not possible to do some testing. After days..talking (and waiting) for an answer from Microsoft Support, the grace period for 7 days is over and i cannot cancel the subcription, because "i agreed with the terms and conditions", wel i did not agreed with a product that does not meet my expectations or requirements. The problem is dat buying NCE from a CSP is a disaster, when you want to return a product. Everything is so tight-up you can't cancel and can't do anything and they keep pointing to the terms and conditions.

Be carefull what you buy.