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Onedrive for business Enterprise Deployment Concerns
1) We have about 650 sites in our tenant including subsites. For each department and user it's not practical for us to select specific document library and sync it. If we can enable sync at site level that will be great. Also if there is a way to automate sync process using powershell for all document libraries related to department or division and deploy it using GPO or SCCM for a user it would be great. Any options for these?
2) We are planning to allocate only 1GB for each user Onedrive for business on Local PC and turn on Files on demand to host everything in sharepoint cloud. It doesn't seem to work as expected. For few test users we have noticed they need to click Free up Space every morning to keep data in cloud only. Does anyone know why this will happen.
Hi SPO Admin. Would it not work better to use mapped network drives? This would keep local storage requirements to a minimum and you can map to site hierarchies rather than just individual document libraries.
Myles
Nope SharePoint Mapped drives have lot of issues. Microsoft doesn't ensure a consistent Sharepoint-to-Drive Mapper connection. Each time user has to re authenticate via browser for connection to remain consistent. Their favorites doesn't work too and they have to refavorite links all the time and the customer experience is not that great. We want through all that hassle so wanted to try out OneDrive client.
Hi SPO Admin. Have you had a look at Zee Drive? Zee Drive maps network drives to OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online but also ensures that users are always signed in as it doesn't use the browser for authentication. You can connect a drive to sites, site hierarchies and individual document libraries.
Zee Drive also provides advanced functions directly from the File Explorer menu for file search, sharing and version management.
Disclosure: I work for the company that develops Zee Drive.
Myles
Nope i meant local storage of 1 GB for Onedrive for business on User's PC. If users choose to keep few documents as keep them on device and store them locally we'll be allocating them 1GB . Nope i can see OneDrive-Companyname as hover text on my file explorer so i can confirm i'm not using previous sync client.
- User on windows 10 1709 build? Probably cause I think the option doesn’t show anyway but figured I’d ask. You have all the cloud icons etc. in the synced documents? If so almost sounds like the OneDrive policy somewhere keeps turning Off. Would investigate closer there since they are turning in and it turns off later seems likely policy runs and sets it back.
