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Copper Contributor

Oct 28, 2019

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OneDrive for buisiness known folders and shared computers

Hi everyone, I'm trying to gert more informations about the comportment of OneDrive KFM. Can KFM work on a shared computer ? Shared computer by 3-4 different users. As it's a computer configu...

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Rhys Williams
Oct 28, 2019
Hi axelb

I have just finished deploying the KFM solution to a school of which has many shared computers.
For shared computers, make sure you have the per-machine install of OneDrive and not the default one. To do this, download the OneDriveSetup.exe and run it in CMD with /allusers

I have then configured KFM to silently sign in using GPO, and that's pretty much it. Everything should work the same as it does for a single user, and work even better if you have the above configured.

If you have users who aren't ready for a KFM solution yet, any folder redirection policies that you have configured will override the KFM policy so nothing will be migrated.

Rhys Williams

Iron Contributor

Oct 28, 2019

Hi axelb

I have just finished deploying the KFM solution to a school of which has many shared computers.

For shared computers, make sure you have the per-machine install of OneDrive and not the default one. To do this, download the OneDriveSetup.exe and run it in CMD with /allusers

I have then configured KFM to silently sign in using GPO, and that's pretty much it. Everything should work the same as it does for a single user, and work even better if you have the above configured.

If you have users who aren't ready for a KFM solution yet, any folder redirection policies that you have configured will override the KFM policy so nothing will be migrated.

axelb
Copper Contributor
Oct 28, 2019
Hi Rhys Williams,

Thank you for your feedback !

One question left : My users already have the OneDrive client (the builit-in one in Win10). How can I manage that ? That means that I need to reinstall it ?

Regards,

Axel
- Rhys Williams
  Iron Contributor
  Oct 28, 2019
  Hi axelb ,
  
  The default client still works for KFM on a shared device, however as it is technically installed on a per-user basis, it takes a while for it to kick in everytime a new user logs into the device. You can deploy it via script if you want to as running the OneDriveSetup.exe /allusers command overwrites the current installation, you don't need to uninstall the original installation prior to running this.
  - axelb
    Copper Contributor
    Oct 30, 2019
    Thanks for your help.
    
    I will test soon and make a feedback for others 🙂