Migrating to one drive - offline files

[chekmate1984]

Hi all

 

After some advice pointers

 

Problem - All laptops currently have offline feature enabled - Start menu and desktop icons are redirected. So need offline enabled for users to take device home and access shortcuts/start menu - At present we get loads of users complaining they cant download files as their offline quota is maxed out. We have to keep increasing or delete temp files

 

Solutions - We are looking to migrate the users to one drive, so their home drive does not have sync issues.

We have got the users to copy all data to one drive but what is best way so windows 10 devices know one drive is the home drive, so if they download anything it goes to one drive and not the profile downloads folder

 

Another issue is, only classroom teachers are currently being migrated to one drive, admin, SLT guys are still using the old system so we cant change the folder redirection for all in one go.

 

I was looking to make the home drive read only or deny but we had sims issue so had to re-enable it.

 

Any ideas on how i can overcome these issues?

[Scottyuk30]

Hi,

 

Just had a quick look at something (not sure if this answers the question but worth a look perhaps) - https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/change-the-location-of-your-onedrive-folder-f386fb81-1461-40a7-be2c-712676b2c4ae#:~:text=Re%2Dlink%20your%20OneDrive&text=Select%20Change%20Location.,then%20finish%20setting%20up%20OneDrive.

 

It's about changing the location of Onedrive files, you could possibly set the new location as the users local home drive and then direct all downloads to it. Files would then Sync to the cloud.

[Boredguy]

You can easily have different policies for different users to redirect their Documents

 

We've been using OneDrive for a few years now, and DJ did a good guide for it that we've rolled out across the MAT

 

http://www.edugeek.net/forums/how-do-you-do/216456-microsoft-onedrive-365-a.html