How SharePoint column settings can affect libraries synced with File Explorer

In my previous post I described how end users might adopt SharePoint (Online) more quickly if they can work the way they always have - in File Explorer. And this is certainly the case if there are no mandatory columns in the source SharePoint library. However, the presence of mandatory columns ('Required' in Content Type …

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Using the Sync option to work smarter and reduce duplication, and increase end user acceptance of SharePoint

Note: A correction was made to this post on 20 July 2019, relating to if a document library contains mandatory metadata. Perhaps the single most common complaint about using electronic document management (EDM) systems over the last two decades has been the requirement to save a copy of a record stored on a network file …