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Re: Futility of Expecting Multi-account Capability
JosephNierenbergvery strange... i have a 2 Office 365 accounts (oneprofessionnal and one personnal) and i am able to configure both of them in To-Do for Android... bit indeed, i can not display tasks from both accounts in the same view and i have to switch account. Is it what you are requesting, be able to see all tasks from all accounts one the same view ?804Views0likes1CommentRe: Alerts set on alibrary folder not working
Actually flow is working for my account and i was able to create a flow betweena particular folder on a particular SharePoint Library and my O365 email and i now have the notification that did not work anymore when set on SharePoint directly. So i think that somehowthe company i work for still pays for a flow licence eventhough flow does not appear anymore as an O365 app. I am not too sure what you mean by breaking out the E3 or E5 plan. But it does not look like something i want to do… the company i work for has nearly 100000 employees, i am just one very small fish among thoses, i am not even partof my company IT Dept(i am juste an engineer working in one of teh very numerous engineering depts) so i am not sure i am allowed to touch anything regaring these O365 Enterprise licences...2.6KViews0likes1CommentRe: Alerts set on alibrary folder not working
Hi ChrisWebbTech I created a flow (didn't use that for a while but nothing too difficult) and it's working like a charm : i do get mail when documents are created in a particular folder and sub-folders of a library. Great and thanks for your suggestion since i totally forgot about flow (i tried to used it a few years back for a very particular and specific need to sync outlook and gmail calendars but it didn't give exactly the desired result so i disabled the 2 flows i created and stopped completely to use it to the point where i even forgot that flow existed at all). I just have one question : i think that in the past, flow was displayed as an office 365 app when i logged-in to my O365 account online. But strangely enough, it does not appear as an app any more, even if i select "display all apps". To find flow, Ihad to search "flow Microsoft" using bing or google to get the link to the web page. Why is it so ? Why is flow no more an O365 app displayed alongside the other apps my company suscribed too (office apsp online, Teams, OneNote, OneDrive, Stream, Sway, Planner… etc) ? Most sincerely Gregory2.6KViews0likes3CommentsRe: Alerts set on alibrary folder not working
ChrisWebbTechHi Sir No i have nothing in my spam folder… :-( It must be noted that according to some tutorial on internet, and according to what was working a few months back, it is possible to set alers on a sub-folder only and all its sub-folders and files. I will have a look at the work flow you mention. Thanks.2.7KViews0likes0CommentsAlerts set on alibrary folder not working
Hi All I used to have a perfectly simple and working alert on a particulat folder (and its subfolders) of a particular Library on a SharePoint site : for this folder, i created an email alert for any modifications and asked to be informed immediately by mail. But, for the last few monts, it does not work anymore. I tried to delete and recreate the alert several times, the only mail u get is the first mail saying that the alert is created. But then, when i add a subfolder or file in this particular folder where the alert is set, i never get a mail. I browsed several websites related to SharePoint to get help but i didn't find anything that could help me. Sincerely Greg2.7KViews0likes6CommentsRe: Files On Demand settings lost on a fresh Windows 10 install
Believe me, my IT Dept has a tendency to reinstall Windows 10 from scratch quite often on our laptops rather than finding solutions to some HW/SW issue we have. They already worked like taht years ago before we had the cloud storage, and i feel that now that we moved to a "all cloud solution" (Office/Microsoft 365), they do it even more :-)3.9KViews0likes0CommentsRe: Files On Demand settings lost on a fresh Windows 10 install
No really, through time, i came to have a particularly "messy" setting if you want but this is the setting that suits me. Moreover, half of my office time i am offline (i am a train/subway test engineer and when on a train in a tunnel 30m below groud level, i have no data connection whatsoever :-)) and thus i need some data to be always local, but not all of them (some have nothing to do on my harddsik as i need them rarely and i need them only when in the office and can just get OneDrive to dowload them when i want to access them and some can be stored locally but deleted when needed). Moreover, my company laptop hard disk size is far below the amount of cloud storage size so i can definitively anyway not store everything locally. Lastly, Files On Demand allows to set the syncing options file by file if needed. So no harm to have a complex syncing setting and use it like that. I just think that, due to this high setting flexibility allowed by OneDrive, it would make perfect sense that the syncing options are somehow remembered on the server side.3.9KViews0likes0CommentsRe: Files On Demand settings lost on a fresh Windows 10 install
Hi adam deltinger I thought about that but i think that most people do sync their OneDrive on one computer only, so i feel it would make sense to have at least the possibility to keep the syncing options on the server side for users who always want the same syncing options after a fresh Windows install. And at the same time, for users who want different syncing options across different devices, to allow them not to enable this option. Moreover, i readChrisWebbTech answers cafrefully, and i am not exactly sure i understood how his proposal allows that. But again, i am absolutely not a native English speaker, and i probably have misunterstood his answers. I will take time tonight at home to read his posts again.3.9KViews0likes1CommentRe: Files On Demand settings lost on a fresh Windows 10 install
But as i mentionned, i can not remember my particular syncing setting for each folder and file… and even if i could remember it, it would take an incredible long amount of time to set it again… i feel that i do need the server side to remember it for me :-) Anyway, i followed your kind advice and i created a suggestion on uservoice :-)3.9KViews1like3CommentsRe: Files On Demand settings lost on a fresh Windows 10 install
HiChrisWebbTech this is really not a great idea not to remember the settings on the server side because : - OneDrive gives 1TB of space which most laptops don't have. Thus, most of us keep most of their data in the cloud only. Having OneDrive trying to re-download everything will fail for users with a lot of data in the cloud since there is not enough space locally. - On a fresh Windows 10 install, OneDrive will start to download everything locolly again, which can take an extremely long time depending on the data size of the data and the internet link speed. And only when this long download is done, the user will start setting again the syncing options to remove from local storage most of the data that was just dowloaded.At least, by default, on a fresh Windows 10 install, OneDrive should set all data to "cloud only" and let the user decide which ones to redowload and store locally. - Having to set the syncing options again from scratch is almost impossible for people like me who don't have a simple organisation of data and syncing settings (for example, one top folder and all its content always in the cloud, another top folder and all its contents always locally… etc).3.9KViews1like8CommentsRe: Files On Demand settings lost on a fresh Windows 10 install
HiChrisWebbTech Not sure completely that i made my problem clear as English is not my native language and thus i have poorly explained it. What i would find nice is that everytime my IT Dept reinstall a fresh Windows 10 on my laptop, OneDrive could somehow know which folders/files i want in the cloud only, which folders/files i Always want a copy on my laptop and which folders/files i allow the OS to delete the local copy. Last time IT reinstalled my laptop, all this setings were lost and my OneDrive dowloaded all my OneDrive data and i had to set again the Files On Demand options (cloud only, Always local, local that can be deleted) on my folders/files. But my guess is that what i am asking indeed does not exist and you kindly suggest me to post the request for this option on the MS uservoice, which i will do.3.9KViews0likes10CommentsRe: Files On Demand settings lost on a fresh Windows 10 install
HiChrisWebbTech First of all, thanks for the very quick reply. But i am not sure to understand how it helps for my issue. Indeed, even if set selective sync (Always keep a local copy, never keep a local copy, or allow the os to delete the local copy if space is needed) on files instead of folders, the issue is the same i guess : on a fresh Windows install by my company IT Dept, all folders/files will be syncdd back on my laptop... Moreover, my OneDrive folder structure is hugely complex, as it is for most people in the world i guess. It is nearly impossible for me to set the syncing files on demande option on a file per file basis… there are indeed some huge chunks of my OneDrive folders tree that i want only in the cloud and thus i have set the "cloud only" option on the top folder. In the same way, i want a permanent copy of more than a few files, so i have to set the option on a folder and can not do it on each file one by one... Sincerely Gregory3.9KViews0likes12CommentsFiles On Demand settings lost on a fresh Windows 10 install
Hi All In my company, i use Windows 10 + OneDrive for Business + Files On Demand. The main reason is that i store a loooot of data in OneDriver, most of them i don't need locally and anyway my company laptop hard disk is smaller than the size od data i am allowed store in the cloud. My company IT Dept sometimes need to reinstall out laptops with a fresh Windows 10 install. But in that case, my Files On Demand settings are lost, ie OneDrive on the fresh Windows 10 install will start dowloading again EVERYTHING from the cloud and i have to set-up manually again my folder-by-folder setting of Files On Demand, with is extremely long to do and almost impossible since i can not remember the setting for each folder. It also make the download extremely long for nothing as the vast majority of my data is only needed in the cloud. Is there a way no to loose this Files On Demand setting on a fresh Windows 10 install, ie to have this setting stored not locally on the client side but on the server side ? Most sincerely Gregory3.9KViews0likes14Comments
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