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Updated Dec 27, 2024
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Norman Rosenthal
Copper Contributor
Aug 21, 2024
I have a client who is requesteing a way to Free Up Space with OneDrive on a schedule as they run out of space on there hard drive and users are not smart enough so it would be great if there was a way to set it on a schedule
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    rickyolmstead
    Copper Contributor
    Aug 21, 2024
    use Storage Sense GPO. It uses Windows Storage Sense to kick back documents to be "Online Only" as long as they did not right click and select "Always Keep on this Device". We have ours set to 1 Day
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    gacarini
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    Aug 21, 2024
    Are the machines the client managing physical machines or in a virtualized environment? If they are physical machines, they can try out the storage sense policy: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/client-management/mdm/policy-csp-storage#configstoragesensecloudcontentdehydrationthreshold. If not, freeing up space can also be scripted with the Files On-Demand attributes https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/files-on-demand-windows.
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      Norman Rosenthal
      Copper Contributor
      Aug 21, 2024
      no they are standalone machines
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        gacarini
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        Aug 21, 2024
        Ok great! Then try out the policy I mentioned.
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    HansBrender
    MVP
    Aug 21, 2024
    There are some Group Policies for that. You have to look for Storage Sense, ther is a policy, which works a bit diffrent. But it contiously deHyrate Files after a specifiq time This GPO has the name : Configure Storage Sense Cloud Content dehydration Thhreshold