OneDrive for Business Roadmap Update

OneDrive for Business, a service that delivers file sharing and synchronization across platforms and devices from Microsoft-hosted or on-premises file storage, is introducing several features that are in preview or rolling out. These features improve the synchronization experience, bring more features to mobile clients, and integrate more closely with other Office 365 components. By themselves, these changes could improve user productivity. However, new features work first (and sometimes only) with Microsoft-hosted OneDrive for Business storage, and some features will require active Software Assurance (SA) to work with on-premises SharePoint Server file storage.

Improved Synchronization, Administration in Windows Client

Microsoft introduced a new OneDrive for Business synchronization client in early 2016. Initially, the new client was able to synchronize with Microsoft-hosted SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business file libraries, and it did not support synchronization with on-premises