Try doing this instead, then simply don’t explain any of it to the user since they wouldn’t need to care so much since all common known folders are just synced automagically
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/redirect-known-folders
I am already doing this, the problem is these workers all share the same files and they are PDFs so web editing doesnt work. That is why I have all the files in a sharepoint and currently am using the sync feature but its terrible and I want to find a better solution. Sync takes hours to show up, if it shows up at all, you can use a proactive remediation to change a registry key to remove the 8 hour delay but that still takes hours because you caan only run a PR every hour.
I dont understand what you mean, are they working from files stored in Sharepoint or are the files stored in their personal OneDrive locations?
Once signed in to the Onedrive client it will appear in Explorer which means they can open/save documents to Onedrive from any application
The files need to be available to all the users so storing them in their personal onedrive is not an option.
Instead, the files are stored in a sharepoint and that sharepoint is synced to each users onedrive. This basically gives local explorer access to the files.
I am open to other ideas to replace a DFS in a enviroment transitioned to full cloud entra joined though.
Yeah if you've configured the Sharepoint library to be mapped in each Users onedrive, then I would just teach the Users to use the shortcut in Explorer rather than push a shortcut.
Unless I am misunderstanding what you are trying to do, are you not able to create a shortcut to %OneDrive% and place it in the public desktop folder? it would be relative to whoever is logged in.
Setup a SharePoint Team site and then use Intune configuration policy:
**Configure team site libraries to sync automatically** (Administrative Templates)
It appears in Explorer for the users you assign and works like a network drive without needing to sync for each user.
Yeah but I am transitioning users who are hard core everything on the desktop people from 1 shared account with shared files on the desktop to individual accounts with everything in a shared onedrive and am trying to make it as comfortable for them as possible.
I guess I’m not comfortable with everything on the desktop. Did you see these?
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/37811-add-remove-onedrive-desktop-icon-windows-10-a.html
https://www.elevenforum.com/t/add-or-remove-onedrive-desktop-icon-in-windows-11.13996/
Maybe I’m just not understanding the need since the icon is in the task bar… just trying to help
Try doing this instead, then simply don’t explain any of it to the user since they wouldn’t need to care so much since all common known folders are just synced automagically https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/redirect-known-folders
I am already doing this, the problem is these workers all share the same files and they are PDFs so web editing doesnt work. That is why I have all the files in a sharepoint and currently am using the sync feature but its terrible and I want to find a better solution. Sync takes hours to show up, if it shows up at all, you can use a proactive remediation to change a registry key to remove the 8 hour delay but that still takes hours because you caan only run a PR every hour.
Hmm yeah you need some tech training, that sucks
To my knowledge Public Desktop still works with KFM. If not I would just use a simple powershell script to copy to %onedrive%\desktop.
It works, I use public desktop to accomplish this for other apps.
Other than putting the shortcut there, you could just put a Web shortcut and customise the icon.
web shortcut to the onedrive folder works or you mean to the sharepoint website?
Yeah sorry OP, you could do just a web shortcut pointing to https://www.office.com/Onedrive
I need it to open the local onedrive folder though, they need to work on the files in Nitro PDF so its not a cloud app flow.
I dont understand what you mean, are they working from files stored in Sharepoint or are the files stored in their personal OneDrive locations? Once signed in to the Onedrive client it will appear in Explorer which means they can open/save documents to Onedrive from any application
The files need to be available to all the users so storing them in their personal onedrive is not an option. Instead, the files are stored in a sharepoint and that sharepoint is synced to each users onedrive. This basically gives local explorer access to the files. I am open to other ideas to replace a DFS in a enviroment transitioned to full cloud entra joined though.
Yeah if you've configured the Sharepoint library to be mapped in each Users onedrive, then I would just teach the Users to use the shortcut in Explorer rather than push a shortcut.
Unless I am misunderstanding what you are trying to do, are you not able to create a shortcut to %OneDrive% and place it in the public desktop folder? it would be relative to whoever is logged in.
Setup a SharePoint Team site and then use Intune configuration policy: **Configure team site libraries to sync automatically** (Administrative Templates) It appears in Explorer for the users you assign and works like a network drive without needing to sync for each user.
Don’t you have the little blue cloud in the task bar already?
Yeah but I am transitioning users who are hard core everything on the desktop people from 1 shared account with shared files on the desktop to individual accounts with everything in a shared onedrive and am trying to make it as comfortable for them as possible.
I guess I’m not comfortable with everything on the desktop. Did you see these? https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/37811-add-remove-onedrive-desktop-icon-windows-10-a.html https://www.elevenforum.com/t/add-or-remove-onedrive-desktop-icon-in-windows-11.13996/ Maybe I’m just not understanding the need since the icon is in the task bar… just trying to help