Migrating homedirectories to Office 365 Onedrive for Business, part 1

When you’re considering a move to Office 365, there are many things you need to take into account. Mail migration strategy, voice, DNS configuration, Sharepoint Online, and more and more: Onedrive for Business.

Now that OneDrive for Business allows unlimited cloud storage for your Office 365 users, there is no real reason left to leave their homedirectories on your expensive local storage. The choice is simple, but getting their data to Onedrive for Business is not.

You basically have three choices: Continue reading Migrating homedirectories to Office 365 Onedrive for Business, part 1

Do not use Windows 2008 x86 as Pull Distribution Point

If you’re considering upgrading or using existing Windows 2008 (any Service pack) Servers as Pull Distribution Points, make sure the’re 64-bit, and not 32-bit. If you do, they will not be able to pull large files (over 4 GB) from their assigned source Distribution Points. All other files will Transfer without issue.

You’ll see the following error in the debug eventlog for the Bits-Client: Continue reading Do not use Windows 2008 x86 as Pull Distribution Point

OneDriveMapper v1.9 released

Version 1.9 of OneDriveMapper now supports a feature you’ve all been requesting a lot: builtin support for mapping Sharepoint Document Libraries!

It also has greatly enhanced session handling and full support for devices that have been Workplace Joined instead of domain joined.

Get the new version here

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