OneDrive

Managing the usage of personal Microsoft accounts in the OneDrive app

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This week is all around managing and containing the usage of personal accounts with the OneDrive app on managed Windows devices. That is definitely not something new, but a recent change in notifications did trigger this post around the usage of personal accounts. Actually, it all started with an item on the public roadmap (490064). That roadmap item is about a new feature that will prompt users for using their personal Microsoft accounts with the OneDrive app, but only when a personal account is already signed in on the device. Of course, one might wonder if that’s a really good approach, but especially the latter part is important; the user will only be prompted when a personal account is already signed in on the device. …

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Configuring Shared PC mode with OneDrive sync enabled and configured

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This week another short blog post about another nice configuration addition to Windows. This time it’s about configuring Shared PC mode with OneDrive sync. Shared PC mode on itself is nothing new, or special, but there was something missing. That something was the OneDrive sync, as there are scenarios in which it’s still required to use OneDrive on a Shared PC. The default behavior of Windows, however, was to prevent the usage of OneDrive, once Shared PC mode was enabled. That’s still the case but starting with Windows 11 version 22H2 a new setting is introduced that enables IT administrators to enable Shared PC mode with OneDrive sync enabled. A new setting to enabled Shared PC mode. This post will start with a short introduction …

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