Since the inception of the OneDriveMapper script, I’ve often been asked if there is a way to pre-provision Onedrive for Business storage for users.
When a user signs into Office 365 for the first time and clicks Onedrive, their Onedrive for Business storage will be allocated and initialized, before that, it is not possible to map their OneDrive storage, or sometimes more importantly: to migrate data to it.
As a good consultant or IT admin, you don’t want to force your users to do this before they can map their drive or before you migrate their data because you like to automate things, repetitive or manual process tend to be unreliable.
If you’ve been administering or enrolling tenants for Office 365, you’ve dealt with Licenses.
In Office 365 (or Azure and Intune!), various licensing plans are available and can be upgraded or downgraded at will quite flexibly.
However, the user interface for this is extremely limited when you start working with large numbers of users or start working with non O365 specific licenses such as EMS and there is no place or method to keep an amdministration or rulebase of who should have what license.
Map your OneDrive for Business to a driveletter automatically!
Imagine the following scenario: you get an awesome offer from Microsoft; unlimited, free storage in OneDrive for all your students!
You immediately sign the deal, and scrap all plans to invest in a new fileserver to replace your currently overflowing fileserver containing all student’s data.