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Suggestion for OneDrive Team
I'm talking about having the version of OneDriveSetup.exe that resides in Windows\SysWow64 be updated on a constant basis vs being static. There're rolling out features that require a certain version level of the client be installed for a user to be able to leverage things like autoconfiguration for a new user and offline files (files on demand or whatever you want to call it).
It took a bit to figure out what happens, but if you follow the steps to silently configure the OneDrive client as outlined HERE, the expectation is that any one that logs onto a computer for the first time gets their OneDrive client automatically configured for them (logged into OneDrive) without any interaction on their/IT's part. However, the way the OneDrive client is set up for a new user on a system is that it will pull the installation for OneDrive from the SysWow64 folder, which from what I've seen is whatever version happened to be around when Windows 10 was installed. The client will autoupdate itself eventually but by that time you can configure it manually, so the Silent Config doesn't work in that scenario. What needs to happen is that the version in SysWow needs to be up to date first so it can install the correct version for new users.
Once this is done it actually works beautifully. The version I have is 1703.3.7076.1026.
- Beautiful. So you actually have to have the very first login or it won’t work? Cause I’ve updated and rebooted and no bueno.
Good info I’m going to have my deployment guy update his image with this and give it s whirl. Thanks!Well, you can sign on and wait for the client to update itself but you've already configured it at that point, so what's the point? lol. You can also wait for the unsigned on client to update itself but it takes a bit.. again - what's the point of waiting?
Enjoy!
