One Drive on demand - GPO and Drive Mapping

[mdrabble]

Having a bit of a play with One Drive seeing if it would be feasible to move user data from on-premise to One Drive and removing the need to store user data on site.

 

For those who do this, would you mind sharing your experiences/issues in day to day use and (cheeky ask) would you mind sharing your GPO settings for One Drive and how you mapped user's home drives to one drive.

 

Cheers.

[robyholmes]

We use Onedrive as part of Windows 10 and have it configured to work in Files on Demand mode for both staff and students. Its set to auto configure and seems to work pretty well. Machines clean up old files to stop locate storage becoming full.

[HereIGoAgain2601]

We have been using OneDrive / Sharepoint since February as a full replacement for onsite servers. We used the free Sharepoint migrator to move everything and don’t use any third party plugins. Everything we use is a Microsoft provided and SSO with Azure AD Connect. I have to say it’s working well and we are very pleased. A couple of slight issues with desktop.ini files being blocked and not uploaded. It seems this is by design of OneDrive so Just not sure why our PCs are trying to save them. We are on Win 10 1809 and using Office 365 versions of Office. It’s a bit of a learning curve for the staff and is supporting them as it’s completey different to what we are used to. Embracing the challenge and enjoying the benefits so far so good. We are moving more schools in the trust over the next 12 months so hoping for love of the same. Our medium term plan is to phase out completely servers in each school and use Azure AD and VM hosting for legacy apps completely in the near future.

[supportman]

So will this work just by using Azure AD Connect to do SSO with your local Active Directory?

[HereIGoAgain2601]

Yes once you setup all the settings correct in AD. It works 99% of the time but the odd machine will have an issue, log off and it works. I think this is down to our firewall blocking one or two ports for Azure Hybrid AD (which is also required as well as SSO).

 

The only issue we have had is the slow first logons - between 2 and 10 minutes per user per device. This is depending on hardware. We are mitigating this by encouraging use of the web clients where this is an issue and user is in a rush. We are only primary schools so not a major issue for us now that staff have 'settled' in and used their regular devices, but appreciate it would be for secondary.

[SVM]

Have you encrypted the PCs ?