O365 user docs / OneDrive access from Campus machines

[BirtyBassett]

I'm curious to know how other folks are tacking this.

 

Currently we offer each student 500MB of 'My Documents' storage via UNC share to file server. We've already migrated all email accounts to O365 so next on the list is decommissioning the onsite file server and forcing students to access their docs either via USB storage or OneDrive. Currently students are able to access OneDrive via web browser and Office but the plan has always been to also offer access via the OneDrive client, especially now the 'Files On-Demand' feature is available. We have 120GB SSDs in most machines so free space is at a premium. I've been playing with this today using the latest client (18.025.0204.0009) and although users can sign-in (albeit manually, would like to get SSO working) and the GPO has correctly enabled Files On-Demand I have a few issues:

 

 

• It still appears to cache a copy of all OneDrive data within the profile.
  
• The OneDrive folder within the profile is not deleted at logoff (we use 'Delete cached copies of roaming profiles'). The rest of the profile is removed, just not the OneDrive stuff.
  
• Users can still choose to 'Always keep on this device' from the context menu which defeats the object of using Files On-Demand.
  

 

What also doesn't help is that we're using mandatory profiles (Win10 1709 Edu) so that was a faff to get working. I realise that OneDrive is unsupported on mandatory profiles but I don't think we have a lot of choice atm.

 

It's got me wondering if it's actually worth the effort trying to offer OneDrive client access or just making them access it via web page / Office. As said, it would be interesting to hear how others tackle this.

 

Cheers,

Graham