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Adrian Kielbowicz
Copper Contributor
Apr 11, 2018

Move OneDrive folder to D:\ for all users - NTFS permission question.

Assume the following scenario:   1) Users are not local admins and access to C drive is very restricted, 2) OneDrive folder has been moved to D:\ drive and placed inside OneDrives subfolder. 3) O...
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Paul Klerkx's avatar
Paul Klerkx
Copper Contributor
Nov 12, 2018

We use GP folder redirection to redirect folders to D and use the information from the first link below to set permissions.  These permissions are set via GPO and this is explained in the second link. 

 

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/274443/how-to-dynamically-create-security-enhanced-redirected-folders-by-usin 

 

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/assign-file-folder-permissions-via-group-policy-farid-soltani/ 

 

with the second component, don't forget to remove permissions for "Everyone"

 

Hope this helps.  

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    Paul Klerkx
    Copper Contributor
    Nov 12, 2018

    forgot to mention.  we created a D:\Users directory and our profiles are directed to here.  permissions set on D:\Users for us, but can't see why the same process wouldn't work on the Root as well.  

     

    so for onedrive for example, you would end up with D:\Users\USERNAME\Onedrive

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