Onedrive for Business for Mac workaround

More and more people are using Office 365 and more and more people are using Mac computers. Unfortunately Onedrive for Business is still not available. It’s scheduled for Q3 later this year… :

 

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But for people who are eager to upload and edit documents and files stored on Office365 there is a solution… (When you are using Microsoft Office for Mac..)

Open Microsoft Document Connection

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And choose for Connect to a Sharepoint Site

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And enter you Sharepoint url. Your sharepoint can be copy/pasted when going to portal.microsoftonline.com and select onedrive. Now go to the folder you wish to sync and copy the complete url. Now paste the complete url here :

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At this point you have to enter your Office 365 Credentials :

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And now you are ready to go. You can upload/download your documents using Microsoft Document Connection. There are some limitations, for example you can only upload files and not complete file structures (folders with files within)

Sometimes when creating the connection you receive the following error. Just try again.

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