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Rudeness and personal attacks will not be tolerated. Please stay on-topic. Please note that your comment may not appear immediately after you post it. Spread the Word. Published in: November 20, am Updated in: November 20, am. This setting shows the following window that prompts users to move their Documents, Pictures, and Desktop folders to OneDrive.
If you enable this setting and provide your tenant ID, users who are syncing their OneDrive see the previous window when they're signed in.
If they close the window, a reminder notification appears in the Activity Center until they move all their known folders. If a user has already redirected their known folders to a different OneDrive account, they are prompted to direct the folders to the account for your organization leaving existing files behind.
If you disable or do not configure this setting, the window that prompts users to protect their important folders doesn't appear. For info and recommendations, see Redirect and move Windows known folders to OneDrive. This policy sets the threshold for how many files a user can delete from a local OneDrive folder before the user is notified that the files will also be deleted from the cloud.
If you enable this policy, users will see a notification if they delete more than the specified number of files from OneDrive on their local computer. The user will be given the option to continue to remove the cloud files, or restore the local files.
Even if you enable this policy, users won't receive notifications if they've selected the "Always remove files" check box on a previous notification, or if they've cleared the "Notify me when many files are deleted in the cloud" check box in OneDrive sync app settings. If you disable this policy, users will not receive a notification when they delete numerous OneDrive files on their local computer. If you do not configure this policy, users will see a notification when they delete more than files within a short period of time.
This setting makes users confirm that they want to delete files in the cloud when they delete a large number of synced files. If you enable this setting, a warning always appears when users delete a large number of synced files. If a user doesn't confirm a delete operation within seven days, the files are not deleted. If you disable or do not configure this setting, users can choose to hide the warning, and always delete files in the cloud.
Any user who has a OneDrive that's larger than the specified threshold in MB is prompted to choose the folders they want to sync before the OneDrive sync app OneDrive. The default value is We release OneDrive sync app OneDrive.
This setting lets you specify the ring for users in your organization. When you enable this setting and select a ring, users aren't able to change it. Production ring users get the latest features as they become available. This ring is the default. Deferred ring users get new features, bug fixes, and performance improvements last.
This ring lets you deploy updates from an internal network location, and control the timing of the deployment within a day window. We recommend selecting several people in your IT department as early adopters to join the Insiders ring and receive features early. We recommend leaving everyone else in the organization in the default Production ring to ensure they receive bug fixes and new features in a timely fashion.
See all our recommendations for configuring the sync app. If you disable or do not configure this setting, users can join the Windows Insider program or the Office Insider program to get updates on the Insiders ring. Set the value 4 for Insider, 5 for Production, or 0 for Deferred. For more info on the builds currently available in each ring, see the release notes. For more info about the update rings and how the sync app checks for updates, see The OneDrive sync app update process.
We recommend deploying the silent policy for existing devices and new devices while limiting the deployment of existing devices to 1, devices a day and not exceeding 4, devices a week. We also recommend using this setting together with Prompt users to move Windows known folders to OneDrive. If moving the known folders silently does not succeed, users will be prompted to correct the error and continue.
You can move all folders at once or select the folders you want to move. After a folder is moved, this policy will not affect that folder again, even if you clear the check box for the folder. If you enable this setting and provide your tenant ID, you can choose whether to display a notification to users after their folders have been redirected.
If you disable or do not configure this setting, your users' known folders are not silently redirected to OneDrive. If you don't set any of the following policies then the default policy will move all the folders Desktop, Documents and Pictures into OneDrive. If you want to specify which folder s to move then you can set any combination of the following policies:. For more info, see Redirect and move Windows known folders to OneDrive. If you enable this setting, users who are signed in on a PC that's joined to Azure AD can set up the sync app without entering their account credentials.
Users will still be shown OneDrive Setup so they can select folders to sync and change the location of their OneDrive folder. If a user is using the previous OneDrive for Business sync app Groove. This setting is frequently used together with Set the maximum size of a user's OneDrive that can download automatically on PCs that don't have Files On-Demand and with Set the default location for the OneDrive folder.
We recommend enabling silent account configuration when you configure the sync app. For more info about this feature, including troubleshooting steps, see Silently configure user accounts. Let us know if you have feedback on this feature or encounter any issues. Right-click the OneDrive icon in the notification area and select Report a problem. Tag any feedback with "SilentConfig" so that your feedback is sent directly to engineers working on this feature. Files On-Demand helps you save storage space on your users' computers, and minimize the network impact of sync.
The feature is available to users running Windows 10 Fall Creators update version or later. We recommend keeping Files On-Demand enabled. If you enable this setting, new users who set up the sync app see online-only files in File Explorer, by default. File contents don't download until a file is opened.
If you disable this setting, Windows 10 users have the same sync behavior as users of previous versions of Windows, and aren't able to turn on Files On-Demand. If you do not configure this setting, users can turn Files On-Demand on or off. Enabling this feature sets the following registry key value to This setting lets you specify a minimum amount of available disk space, and warn users when the OneDrive sync app OneDrive. Users are prompted with options to help free up space.
This setting specifies what happens when conflicts occur between Office file versions during sync. By default, users can decide if they want to merge changes or keep both copies. Users can also change settings in the OneDrive sync app to always keep both copies. This option is available for Office or later only. With earlier versions of Office, both copies are always kept. If you enable this setting, users can decide if they want to merge changes or keep both copies.
Users can also configure the sync app to always fork the file and keep both copies, as follows. If you disable this setting, the Sync conflicts setting on the Office tab is disabled, and when a sync conflict occurs, both copies of the file are kept. To enable this setting, you must enable Coauthor and share in Office desktop apps. For more info about the Office settings in the sync app, see Use Office applications to sync Office files that I open.
This setting lets multiple users use the Microsoft Apps for enterprise, Office , or Office desktop apps to simultaneously edit an Office file stored in OneDrive. It also lets users share files from the Office desktop apps. We recommend keeping this setting enabled to make syncing faster and reduce network bandwidth. If you enable or do not configure this setting, the Office tab appears in OneDrive sync settings, and Use Office applications to sync Office files that I open is selected, by default.
If you disable this setting, the Office tab is hidden in the sync app, and coauthoring and in-app sharing for Office files is disabled. The Users can choose how to handle Office files in conflict setting acts as disabled, and when file conflicts occur, both copies of the file are kept. For more info about the settings in the sync app, see Use Office applications to sync Office files that I open. This setting lets you specify SharePoint team site libraries to sync automatically the next time users sign in to the OneDrive sync app OneDrive.
Do not enable this setting for libraries with more than 5, files or folders. Do not enable this setting for the same library to more than 1, devices.
If you enable this setting, the OneDrive sync app automatically syncs the contents of the libraries you specified as online-only files the next time the user signs in.
The user isn't able to stop syncing the libraries. If you disable this setting, team site libraries that you've specified aren't automatically synced for new users. Existing users can choose to stop syncing the libraries, but the libraries won't stop syncing automatically. To find the library ID, sign in as a global or SharePoint admin in Microsoft , browse to the library, and select Sync.
In the Starting sync dialog, select the Copy library ID link.
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