[22h2] Symlink/Junction/Otherwise move C:\Users to another disk?

[Garacesh]

tl;dr OneDrive is causing problems on small capacity machines and we want to dump it in a different location.

 

Most of our devices here have small disks because we have a huge emphasis on BYOD and OneDrive usage.

However, we have a media course here where students are regularly composing videos where their components add up to tens of gigabytes, and some of the pupil's devices just aren't good enough to run Premier Pro etc.

OneDrive can't stream files a-la Google Drive, it wants to download everything locally, so we're having an issue where disks are getting full after 2 users.

 

Since to my knowledge you can't universally tell OneDrive to store files for every user in a different location, I was thinking about trying to symlink or otherwise relocate C:\Users but nothing I try seems to be working. It seems to want the folder to not exist before I can softlink it anywhere else, which isn't exactly going to work.

 

Unlikely, but has anybody ever encountered something like this before?

I could just slap a bigger disk in and reimage the device as a whole, which I'm starting to suspect will end up being the route we go down, but I was hoping to keep their OS on the NVMes they have to speed things up a little.

[Steve21]

Since to my knowledge you can't universally tell OneDrive to store files for every user in a different location.

 

As in this GPO?

 

Set the default location for the OneDrive folder

 

This setting lets you set a specific path as the default location of the OneDrive folder on users' computers. By default, the path is under %userprofile%.

 

If you enable this setting, the default location of the OneDrive - {organization name} folder is the path that you specify. To specify your tenant ID and the path, in the Options box, select Show.

 

This policy sets the following registry key to a string that specifies the file path:

 

[HKCU\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\OneDrive\DefaultRootDir] "1111-2222-3333-4444"="{User path}"

 

where "1111-2222-3333-4444" is the tenant ID.

 

If you disable this setting, the local OneDrive - {organization name} folder location defaults to %userprofile%.

 

Does that help?

 

Steve

[Garacesh]

Unfortunately, that's a user policy not a machine one.

In this instance, Not every machine would have multiple disks, so we don't want it applied globally.

 

Edit: I guess loopback policy might work

Edited October 19, 2023 by Garacesh

[Steve21]

Yep would either be loopback

 

Or we just give those students in the media courses a local drive still as some programs don’t even like syncing it like that as you still need to consider the upload before log off etc if using it direct via OneDrive

 

Steve