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Copper Contributor

Apr 11, 2021

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OneDrive exits and does not run properly, with Roaming Profile users

I wonder if anyone can help me get to the bottom of this. We're seeing OneDrive fail to run correctly for a large number of users. Starting from a Fresh profile, or new user, the OneDriveSetup.ex...

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PhotoVoltaic
Apr 17, 2021
It turned out to be something annoyingly simple, the GroupPolicy "Block OneDrive..." being Enabled, setting the "DisableFileSyncNGSC=1" regkey, but we didn't notice this sooner because not all client PCs had picked up this Policy for various reasons. It had nothing to do with Roaming Profiles, that did indeed turn out to be a total red herring.
Just another one of those cases were you're sure it's not X, it must be Y or Z. But actually, it was X all along.

PhotoVoltaic

Copper Contributor

Apr 17, 2021

It turned out to be something annoyingly simple, the GroupPolicy "Block OneDrive..." being Enabled, setting the "DisableFileSyncNGSC=1" regkey, but we didn't notice this sooner because not all client PCs had picked up this Policy for various reasons. It had nothing to do with Roaming Profiles, that did indeed turn out to be a total red herring.

Just another one of those cases were you're sure it's not X, it must be Y or Z. But actually, it was X all along.