KFM - Silent Folder Move doesn't work until user selects it
I'm trying to set up Known Folder Move using OneDrive, but it's not doing it automatically when a user logs in. The user has to open OneDrive settings and manually start backup. I'm using OneDrive along with FSLogix office containers, with OneDrive caching enabled. I've configured OneDrive in GPO to silently sign-in, silently move, prompt to move, and prevent them from being moved back. I've installed OneDrive version 22.176.0821.0003 using setup.exe /allusers. These are my GPO settings: Silently sign in users to the OneDrive sync app with their Windows credentials: Enabled Silently move Windows known folders to OneDrive: Enabled Prompt users to move Windows known folders to OneDrive: Enabled Prevent users from redirecting Windows Known Folders to their PC: Enabled Use OneDrive Files On-Demand: Enabled But here is what is happening: User logs in desktop first time, and OneDrive silently logs in the user successfully. OneDrive does not migrate Known folders and does not prompt user. User must launch OneDrive client > Settings > Backup tab > "Start Backup". Then the OneDrive client informs the user that "Your IT department wants you to back up your important folders", and clicking "Start Backup" will start KFM correctly. It's my understanding that Silent Known Folder Move is supposed to be automatic without user intervention. I've checked the registry keys and all of them seem to be correct: But under HKCU\Software\Microsoft\OneDrive\Accounts\Business1, it shows the "kfmFoldersProtectedNow = 0" so it's not engaging something. So what do I need to do for Silent KFM to automatically work on first logon?
OneDrive for Business | Known folder silently redirection not work
Hi Everyone, Recently, one of my customers meet the issue on "Silent move Windows Known folders to OneDrive". When we configure the correct registry in local machine as following KB, the policy will not work as expected. And we have no redirection policy or <Prohibit User from manually redirecting Profile Folders> policy in Group Policy Result. Official Document: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/use-group-policy#silently-move-windows-known-folders-to-onedrive The root cause is that the silent KFM function will be only triggered in the first time. It is supposed to avoid repeating request when we open the OneDrive every time. It has a corresponding registry <KfmIsDoneSilentOptIn> in “Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\OneDrive\Accounts\Business1”. Here is the solution. 1. Step1. Delete registry key from below path: Path: Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\OneDrive\Accounts\Business1 Key: KfmIsDoneSilentOptIn: 2 2. Close the OneDrive and open it again 3. You will see that the notification on “Silent KFM” automatically start to work again.
OneDrive, Folder Redirection, .PST files, and PC Folder Backup
I was prepared to leverage PC folder backup to move user files from personal Z-drive to OneDrive but I've run into an issue... If I turn on PC folder backup, it will look at the existing folder redirection, MOVE the file from Z-drive to C:\users\username\OneDrive - xxx folder, THEN skip the .pst file from sync. The problem is Outlook is now broken because it cannot find the attached .pst file because it was moved. This is a great solution, now held captive by !@# .pst files (scheduled for 2022 demise internally). I just didn't want to wait for later in 2022 to get the files moved into OneDrive.
KFM Documents Folder Duplication
I have just been testing the rollout of automatic KFM in a school. Staff move around computers and so will login to multiple PC's and sync with them. While I have been testing that I have found the following: When I login to the first desktop for the first time, OneDrive redirects as expected and makes the 'Desktop','Documents' and 'Pictures' folders within OneDrive, like this: https://pasteboard.co/J4qGF4b.jpg When I log off the first computer and then login to the next computer, OneDrive syncs and redirects the folders, but my 'Documents' and 'Pictures' are empty. When I open the OneDrive folder, I can see two hidden folders which contain the files synced on the first PC. Its almost like its duplicating the folders: https://pasteboard.co/J4qGY9o.jpg Then if I log back into PC1 I see this (My Documents and My Pictures contain synced files from PC2 now): https://pasteboard.co/J4qHrgu.jpg When I go into the hidden folders, I can see the documents/pictures I synced on the first PC but they aren't in my redirected Documents or Pictures folders. Has anyone experienced this or know how to fix it? Its almost like its splitting it per PC I sync with.OneDrive KFM Desktop Shortcut Duplication
When redirecting the desktop with KFM, any shortcuts deployed via GPO get duplicated whenever the user signs into a PC for the first time. Assuming because the shortcuts get added before KFM has kicked in so OneDrive is never aware of them. Big issue for our students as they have lessons on different computers all the time. Anyone come across a decent way of overcoming this issue? I have thought about doing a GPO to run a script that removes duplicates however that's very dirty and may remove some items that we don't want removed in the future. Thought i'd tap into the community knowledge before sinking time into a fix!
KFM with vs without Files On Demand: Need to decide and Need Pros, Cons of each?
We're getting ready to deploy OD4B with KFM. There's some disagreement in my Project Team about whether to include mandatory Files On Demand (FOD) in the GPO. With a few exceptions AFAIK disk space on laptops is not an issue with local data. (It WILL be once we move the network personal drives to OD4B). AFAIK the 'M' in KFM means 'migration/move,' not 'copy'. I also know that FOD replaces all local content with pointers to OD4B, the location(s) of which can then be managed by the users with a simple right-click. Files no longer live locally and require internet connectivity to access unless/until changed. What I don't know is what the specific difference would be during the initial deployment & ongoing use of OD4B with KFM if we DO NOT include FOD. Would it be a 'copy' operation of the KFM contents to OD4B, with the status set by default to 'Locally Available?' I'm wanting FOD, as it gives us a true authoritative and single source for user data, which they can switch back/forth as needed. Others think there will be hand-wringing and support problems if users forget to click on a file to make it locally available on their device outside of Internet access. All advice/suggestions/experience appreciated!Known Folder Move Tips from our experience so far... (inc. error 0x80070005)
We decided to implement KFM but had a few issues along the way. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/use-group-policy is very good for getting KFM up and running, but doesn't provide any troubleshooting if you run into issues. As KFM is a new technology, there also isn't much available on the internet at the moment so thought I would share our experience and troubleshooting tips so far. The first problem we hit is we had Folder Redirection enabled in Group Policy. So when KFM tried to take over it couldn't. Switching off Folder Redirection is well documented elsewhere, but we had the issue that, even with it turned off, it left a ghost behind in our GP. So we recommend, if you are going to enable FR, always put it in a separate policy and set it to "redirect the folder back to the local userprofile location when the policy is removed". That way, when you revoke the FR policy, everything goes back to how it was pre-FR. The second issue we hit with KFM was error 0x80070005 (access denied). This was for two reasons - the FR ghosting in GP and also because we had "Prohibit user from manually redirecting profile folders" set to ENABLED in Group Policy. This can be found in Group Policy under User Config > Policies > Admin Templates > Desktop. I posted about this a couple of weeks ago here. When you think about it, it's an obvious conflict for KFM, but isn't documented anywhere. The third issue was KFM wouldn't silently configure. In our test environment, with a blank GP, KFM enabled and silently configured without user interaction, But, when we added the same GP settings into our master GP in the live environment, KFM enabled but wouldn't silently configure - it kept prompting the users with the "Your IT department wants you to protect your important folders" prompt and they had to click "Start Protection". We couldn't figure this one out so raised a ticket via our O365 Admin portal to Microsoft. At first they tried to tell us it wasn't possible to silently configure KFM (even though it says otherwise on their own website https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/use-group-policy#silently-redirect-windows-known-folders-to-onedrive) then when they went to the link, they closed the ticket with the response "the issue you are facing is beyond the area of expertise of our support services team". So it seems Microsoft aren't fully versed yet about how to support KFM. We therefore systematically went through every GP setting we had configured, and re-tested KFM after disabling each one. Turns out, it was due to a shortcut GP had been configured to put on the desktop (this is found under User Configuration > Preferences > Windows Settings > Shortcuts). When we removed this shortcut GP setting, KFM enabled and silently configured. All of the above took days of troubleshooting so posting this int he hope it saves everyone else some time.
