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is OneDrive for Business pre-creation required for rollout?
We plan to deploy group policies to automatically configure users OneDrive for Business sync clients. (AD sign-in and known-folder-move). Do we need to pre-create OneDrives in this scenario? Or ...
Hi Beat,
You shouldn't need to pre-create OneDrives in this case - just make sure that users are licensed for OneDrive in Office 365.
If they are not, the OneDrive for Business app won't sign in automatically.
Cheers.
I'm almost 100% certain you do have to pre-provision ODFB.
How one does pre-provision? And how automatic sign in via group policy is different from a first time sign in via client's menu?
You can preprovision them using the method here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/pre-provision-accounts
I probably miss something. I see scenarios in this document, but they do not explain why exactly do you need to pre-provision it. I mean what is benefit or possible issues. What will happen if you don't pre-provision? When we prepare new users or were first deploying OneDrive for existing users, we just login with a user and OneDrive folder is created. Maybe with pre-provision it will login faster first time? Although it is still fairly quick.
Think of migration from on-premises file shares, tenant-to-tenant migrations, etc.