Just thought I'd update where we are with this as it's proving a big issue. On a seperate but related issue, opening Sharepoint sites in File Explorer via Webdav and pinning those sites to Quick Access is likely to be popular with our users, but it drives a cart and horses through our attempts to move people away from Network Locations and get them actually interacting with SharePoint! I'm confused where MS are going with this. So now I don't know if I am looking at a bug, a permissions issue, or something else entirely. However, if the pinning feature is gone, why can I still do it? I had a user who cannot pin sign into the Office 2016 on the same PC as I had signed into and I could pin and he couldn't. In reading around, I found a long thread suggesting that the Excel team had deliberately removed pinning and the 'correct' method was adding locations to Quick Access. Within the IT team we can all pin and see our history.
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But in Excel, a lot of our users not only cannot pin but they have no recent history accumulating either.
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In Word, we've been showing users how to 'Pin' folders and that generally works for most people. The biggest problem our users are having (apart from Outlook attachments, don't get me started on that) is accessing files and folders they regularly use in Excel.
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We've just moved our users to 365 after a short pilot phase. Sorry if this is a topic that's ben done to death but I've had a look and I can't see anything really.