Migrating from Local to G Drive

[Rydema]

Good afternoon all!

 

I am looking to find a way of basically replicating the same functionality as onedrive with known folders etc. The school uses G suite and file stream and we do not have a onedrive (otherwise this would probably be a lot easier)

 

Basically i'm looking to Move known folders to the users G Drive (Default map: G:\My Drive\) automatically as I know when a user first logins it won't map straight of the bat

I suppose making it so it recognises the user and signs them on upon logging into so it can pull the desktop etc

 

Has anyone managed to achieve these things? I was looking down the route of making file stream a service which makes it boot upon the machine and folder redirection via user level policy

[dhicks]

Basically i'm looking to Move known folders to the users G Drive (Default map: G:\My Drive\) automatically as I know when a user first logins it won't map straight of the bat

I suppose making it so it recognises the user and signs them on upon logging into so it can pull the desktop etc

 

Two, slightly separate, issues:

 

- The Drive File Stream client completes loading after the folder redirection happens. You can re-do folder redirection to point to Google-hosted folders, although it might need a Finder restart to take effect.

 

- The first time a user logs in on a particular machine, they won't be logged in to the Google File Stream client. You need to be able to force the user to log in before they can do anything else.

 

The tool you would think would solve the two above issues nicely is the Google login component for Windows, which lets you configure Windows to login with GSuite credentials. It doesn't, hwoever, pass crfedentials through to the Drive File Stream client. However, it does pass credentials to the Chrome web browser (if installed), and the File Stream client has an option to use Chrome for authentication, so if you configure File Stream client to use Chrome that should take care of that problem.

 

My planned solution is to write something to replace the default Windows shell (Explorer), wait until the File Stream client is loaded up and logged in, then do the folder redirects and start up Explorer. Combine that with the GSuite Login component and a user should be able to log in to Windows with their GSuite credentials and see their Google Drive files as Windows folders.

[sted]

i had a look into this a while back and got nowhere

from what i remember google drive on the pc doesn't keep a normal folder structure you can redirect into (so c:\users\someuser\appdata\local\google\drive\docs (or similar)) like onedrive does and i dont think you can even do it manually