Ok, so this has bothered me for some time – until now, there has been standalone OneDrive for Business SkyDrive Pro client. Users have had to install Office 2013 to experience the new way of synchronising files with SharePoint.
The reason it has bothered me is that it is such a limitation to require the client to be installed in this way. For most organisations, it is just not feasible to install the latest and greatest software from day one due to budgets and wider IT constraints, resources and policies where software has to be tested, licensed and patched for example.
Let’s put that aside now as I’m really happy to see that Microsoft released a standalone installer for the OneDrive for Business SkyDrive Pro client earlier this week.
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The standalone OneDrive for Business client is available on the Microsoft Downloads site. Both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the client are available.
The client can also be installed alongside previous versions of Office and can be used to synchronise libraries from SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint Online in Office 365.