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Beat Grüring's avatar
Beat Grüring
Brass Contributor
Nov 16, 2018
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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 ...
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  • Gerardo D'Amico's avatar
    Gerardo D'Amico
    Nov 18, 2018

    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.

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VasilMichev
MVP
Nov 18, 2018

Think of migration from on-premises file shares, tenant-to-tenant migrations, etc.

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wroot
Silver Contributor
Nov 18, 2018

Ok, so it is designed to move existing files/shares/folders and a place has to be created before hand. But in this case users have never used OneDrive and there are no files to migrate (probably). So, group policy will enable SSO with AD login, OneDrive client will login and then provisioning will happen and then it should work.