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User-Driven Home Drive Migrations to OneDrive using MEMCM

ben@byteben.com (Ben Whitmore) — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

This script wont necessarily fit your environment, it may do with tweaking, but my hope is that it will give you an idea of how you can approach different challenges using the different tools in you arsenal.

Using ConfigMgr #MEMCM to Pin and Un-Pin OneDrive Known Folders

ben@byteben.com (Ben Whitmore) — Sun, 26 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

First blog post of 2020 using the new #MEMCM tag! One of the things asked for recently was the ability for users to “choose” to keep OneDrive “Known Folders” available offline. This isn’t necessary for a user on their Primary computer - the OneDrive files will already be local but when the user logs on to a different computer in a shared computer environment, the files will only be available on demand. We were asked to give the users the option of “Pinning” these known folders and for the admin to have the option to force it. The folders being redirected by OneDrive Known Folder Move were:-

Installing the OneDrive Sync Client in "Per-Machine" mode during your Task Sequence for a lightening fast "first logon" experience

ben@byteben.com (Ben Whitmore) — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Background

One of the things I have been trying to improve is the users “first logon” experience in Windows 10. Waiting for the OneDrive sync client to “do its thing” reminded me of that one kid in the class that could be awesome if they tried harder. After the user profile is created (another post coming soon on tweaking the speed of this), OneDriveSetup.exe was called from the Default User Hive “Run” key. If OneDrive wasn’t installed in the User’s Profile (unlikely for a new profile), it would go and throw the binaries in %localappdata%, check for updates, twiddle its thumbs and eventually download some files or stubs.