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Karlis Kisis's avatar
Karlis Kisis
Brass Contributor
Oct 19, 2017

Folder Redirection

If we are talking about Microsoft 365, I would very much like to see "Folder Redirection" to OneDrive.. so that Desktop, Documents can be easily retained during a "Reset/Recovery" process. Like State Migration..

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  • Ryan Pertusio's avatar
    Ryan Pertusio
    Brass Contributor

    jasmo really got everyone excited in his 2017 Ignite demo ( https://youtu.be/ftZzOZhB4BE?t=573 )

  • There is an issue with redirection after Windows Updates applies. Here is the documentation for configuring known folder redirection with OneDrive for Business: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Redirect-known-folders-to-OneDrive-for-Business-e1b3963c-7c6c-4694-9f2f-fb8005d9ef12
  • You can configure this today via policy, but it is more challenging than it needs to be. We are working to simplify this for a future Windows 10 release.
      • Michael Niehaus's avatar
        Michael Niehaus
        Former Employee

        It's still a little early to say.  Today, you have to manually set up OneDrive for Business, which gets the folders in place; once that's done, policies to redirect the folders work fine (although existing data doesn't move).  Hence the reason to make it easier overall :-)  I wouldn't expect the changes to cause any problems if you've already set this up.

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