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Anonymous

Oct 12, 2017

Silently configure OneDrive using Windows 10 or domain credentials

Hi , In reference to : (Preview) Silently configure OneDrive using Windows 10 or domain credentials https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Use-Group-Policy-to-control-OneDrive-sync-client-sett...

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Kerry Boehm

Copper Contributor

Jul 17, 2018

We have been kicking the around for a couple weeks. We still have a lot of folks on Office 2013 and the old Groove client. We are looking to migrate them to 2016 and seamlessly move them over to OneDrive. We were seeing very inconsistent test results. After adding the ADAL and SilentAccountConfig keys some machines were switching over to OneDrive without prompting for login and others were prompting. Although we are using the current version from the Office portal it seems the version of OneDrive which initially comes down is a bit older. 17.3.6743.1212. I suppose if we were patient it would eventually update to a newer version but that isn't an option.

We are now getting consistent results if we run %localappdata%\Microsoft\OneDrive\OneDriveStandaloneUpdater.exe, wait for it to finish, then launch OneDrive and it logs in with Modern Auth (No prompting)

Hope this helps. This thread was extremely helpful!

Sebastian cerazy

Brass Contributor

Oct 01, 2018

I have almost all working on latest client 18.151.0729.0012 apart from the actual "Silently redirect Windows known folders to OneDrive"

I have it enabled with tenant ID & show notification YES, but instead this happening on the client I have "... a reminder notification will appear in the activity center until they move all known folders."

If I click Protect these folders it work fine, but I do NOT want my users to have any input!

Seb

edit

I see it now, it is VERSION number that needs to change!

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/use-group-policy#OptInNoWizard

Use this policy with the sync client build 18.171.0823.0001 or later to move your users' known folders to OneDrive without user interaction. (You can choose to display a notification to users after their folders have been redirected.)

EDIT 2

That is NOT true at all, as I have it working even on current version fine following my own setup:

simon .
Copper Contributor
Oct 09, 2018
Hi,
Did you have any problems installing the One Drive client on your windows 10 PC's? Mine looks to install and then just closes without the OneDrive client being available.
- Anonymous
  Oct 09, 2018
  The specific key is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\OneDrive\DisableFileSyncNGSC = DWORD:1
- Anonymous
  Oct 09, 2018
  Looks like you have a reg key thats blocking onedrive from launching it.