We’ve heard requests from several customers asking to make it easier to move their user data into OneDrive. To have a single button that they could push that would move content from the Desktop, Docu...
Updated Aug 24, 2018
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Doesn't UE-V require a file server set up for it? This defeats the purpose of moving the user's data to the cloud and having fewer servers for IT to manage.
Needing a server for UE-V would be needless complexity just to sync Favorites when IE Favorites is already a Windows known folder location that could easily be synced to OneDrive.
If UE-V could store the files in the user's OneDrive, that could have been a solution, but since it requires a UNC path, it cannot. We do not want to create more dependencies on IT-managed servers to maintain, patch and back up when we are migrating as much as we can to the cloud. We are in the process of migrating user data on current file servers to SharePoint and OneDrive so we can decommission them.
The Favorites folder is just another folder in the user's Windows user profile to sync and it already works. I don't understand why Microsoft would be so hell bent on excluding it.
In this case, we will need to forget about this KFM feature and use the earlier OneDrive folder redirection that allows adding Favorites and additional known folders such as music and videos etc..