Category Archives: OneDrive for Business

Onedrive For Business Silent Deployment, Configuration and Folder Redirection through Intune MDM for Windows 10

SUPERCEDED BY Ultimate folder redirection for Onedrive, Teams and Sharepoint

I’ve taken information from several sources and written a single “Do It All – Onedrive For Business configuration script” for the Windows 10 Modern Management (Intune MDM Azure AD Join) scenario.

The script can be deployed through Intune to your Windows 10 MDM clients and will do the following silently:

    • check latest O4B version and update to it
    • detect O4B configuration, start auto config
    • completely silent / invisible configuration with SSO
    • optionally, enable Files On Demand
    • optionally, redirect folders to Onedrive
    • optionally, copy old content

O4BClientAutoConfig + source code.

OnedriveMapper v3.10 released!

Version 3.10 of OneDriveMapper has been released!

  • handle the new tile / prompt that appears in IE login mode where Microsoft no longer always redirects to the portal
  • Progress bar color is now a configurable option (cloud/non cloud)
  • alphabetic ordering of configs (cloud only)
  • Fixed auto update loop issue where auto update would break itself for subsequent updates.
  • When restarting self (switching auth mode or auto updating) properly hide the console if this was set

Important Auto Update Instructions

If you were using Auto-Update, DO NOT do so for this version. Use the MSI to replace the old version (see last fixed issue).

New Azure AD Signin experience

As some may have read, Microsoft is previewing a potentially disruptive change without advance notice. My tenants don’t yet display the new behavior so I cannot test if OnedriveMapper will be affected. I haven’t heard of any issues yet 🙂

Get the new version here

Deploying the new Onedrive Next Generation Sync client as MSI through Intune to Windows 10

Onedrive for Business’s client, the new Next Generation Sync client, is awesome. Obviously.

So you want it on your devices, but Microsoft distributes it as .exe. Nasty, because I want to manage Windows 10 as mobile devices through Intune, and that only allowes me to distribute as MSI.

I created an MSI for Onedrive for Business’s Next Generation Client using Advanced Installer. Because I’m not allowed to redistribute Microsoft’s .exe, this MSI downloads the .exe from Microsoft’s website, it uses /silent and /takeover as installation switches. Continue reading Deploying the new Onedrive Next Generation Sync client as MSI through Intune to Windows 10

Onedrive Files On Demand is finally coming!

I’ve been ‘mentioning’ it a few times here and there, wasn’t allowed to say too much….but now it is finally public, coming before the end of the year Onedrive will have a sync on demand feature, no longer requiring local storage on your device!

It will allow all of us OnedriveMapper users to switch to a fully supported Microsoft solution for Windows 10 users.

Quirky thing is, Windows 7 and 2008 / 2012 R2 are not in scope. Possibly another good one to vote on at uservoice 🙂