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Yunxie
Jul 10, 2024Copper Contributor
Syncing Sharepoint files using OneDrive on Windos Server 2019
Hi everyone.
We are a small office and use Sharepoint in Microsoft 365 to keep our office files. We have an on-premises Windows Server 2019 server and is currently using OneDrive to sync Sharepoint files to the server. The folder that was created by OneDrive on the server is also being shared to all PCs in our office mapped as the J drive. We are using Active Directory.
So, users can do changes to the files or create new ones from their PCs using the J drive and they get uploaded/updated to Sharepoint when OneDrive syncs the files. This part is working good as expected.
The issue we are having is that there are 4 employees that work remotely so we shared the SharePoint folders with them and they installed OneDrive directly on the computers to get access to the SharePoint folders. If one of these 4 users creates a folder, this folder gets downloaded with the parent folder permissions on our on-premises server. But, if one of these 4 users adds a file, this file is being downloaded with Administrator permissions only so no one in the office can see the files until someone manually changes the file permissions on the server to allow users to get access to the file.
We have tried almost everything we can think of to try to give the right permissions to the files downloaded from OneDrive but with no success yet. I would really appreciate any recommendations.
- mwarningCopper Contributor
Sounds like a permission issue on Sharepoint. Permission inheritance isn't happening from the parent to a child somewhere. Do you have your external users connected to the site or just formed as a group? It's easy to make the mistake of not having child inheritance turned on when making a new group or during sharing.
- mwarningCopper ContributorAlso when the external users connect to SharePoint are they using the Add a Shortcut to OneDrive button or the Sync button? Don't use Sync it will cause problems. Adding a shortcut will put a linked folder into the external users OneDrive. It's just a link straight to SharePoint that takes up no space on the users OneDrive. They simply open that folder in file explorer and add files.