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Copper Contributor

Jun 05, 2020

Syncing SharePoint Document Libraries on Non-Persistent Virtual Computers

I have searched for ways to "sync" a SPO Document Library, particularly a Teams Document Library, in a non-persistent VDI where you have access via Windows Explorer similarly to OneDrive. While I cou...

Copper Contributor

Jun 21, 2021

I have had some inconsistencies with the script and have made the following changes that seem to work very well in my environment.

Change the following:

$DomainServer = $env:LOGONSERVER.Substring(2) + '.' + $env:USERDNSDOMAIN
$UserName = $env:USERNAME

to:

$DomainServer = [System.Net.Dns]::GetHostByName($env:LOGONSERVER.Substring(2)).HostName
$UserName = [Environment]::UserName

I will update the OP to reflect this change.

AlecHildreth_SSIT

Copper Contributor

Jun 22, 2021

Thank you TonyBryant ! I found this tutorial which has a similar script methodology for synching Sharepoint sites:

https://youtu.be/Zoac9lbUuG0?t=1050

It uses "whoami /upn" to set the UPN variable, which seems to be working for AzureAD accounts:

$userUPN= cmd /c "whoami /upn"

Their script is hosted on GitHub and seems to work well:

https://github.com/tabs-not-spaces/CodeDump/blob/master/Sync-SharepointFolder/Sync-SharepointFolder.ps1

However it may be a bit more complex than is needed with the Error and Success messages being returned. For my purposes having the script run silently is best, so I will likely be using a combo of code from your script and the Intune Training Channel folks.

I have been working on deploying Sharepoint site synchronizations via Intune as a Win32App. Intune does have a feature for mapping Sharepoint sites, but it's ridiculously slow. It takes anywhere from 8 hours to 5 days before the libraries show up on the computer as Synched.

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Copper Contributor
Jan 28, 2022
We got the script working well following the instructions of jsmithianasher. The only issue now is that with every login after the first one you get the message that library is already synced. Is there a way to check if it is synced first before syncing it?