We are currently using the OneDrive for Business client that is bundled with Office 2013 and we have had lots of problems with broken OneDrive
synchronization. We want to deploy the “Next Gen” sync client with SCCM to fix our synch issues.
While an in-place upgrade to this new client is possible, I understand that the process deletes all of the local OneDrive data that a user
has on their PC and re-downloads everything from the cloud. This is inherently problematic because the 2013 sync client is usually broken on our end-user PCs. If we wiped out our user’s local copy of OneDrive data and resynced it from the cloud,
our users would lose any of the local changes that they have made that haven’t synchronized with the cloud if their client is broken.
Has anyone run into this and experienced data loss? Has anyone found a way to check for the 2013 OneDrive for Business client health
before deploying the upgrade?
Thanks,
FP