#xpa Office 365 #xpa
chris@...
Hi all,
We are upgrading a client from 3.2 to 4.8 and have a question around Office 365. They currently direct outputs to the user’s H: drive. However, they want to move away from user h: drives toward OneDrive. One way they have been addressing this is updating the Citrix platform by mapping OneDrive as drive letter U: (one of the issues they confronted was MFA hence why they are upgrading to Server 2019). |
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Steven Burrows
If OneDrive is being provisioned by IT for all users, then you probably won’t need a Drive Mapping, they will all be in %USERPROFILE% with folder names specified by IT. I have 3 x OneDrive folders:
OneDrive is very nice piece of kit, but when it is replacing a busy server it can become a bit of a lumbering beast and take a while to update. It is good but its NOT a direct replacement for a proper File Server, make sure you only use it when you need to. Don’t use it for Temp files (use %TEMP%), don’t use it for User Settings/Files (have a folder in %AppData%). I would totally avoid using it for any multi user data that has timing consequences or locking of any kind (e.g. SqlLite or monitored file drop folders). There might be a few programming techniques you want to avoid when using OneDrive. E.g. creating a big CSV using Append Mode, then immediately renaming might cause it have a bit of a fit. Rapid changes are best done in a Temp folder then copied to OneDrive in 1 go.
If you don’t have so much control over the Folder Names or there is a varying hierarchy, then you might still need a Mapped Drive (to the correct local folder). This might be a good migration path, just change your existing Network Drive Mappings to Local Drive Mappings in the OneDrive structure, but it might equally be a good chance to move from Drive Mappings and use %USERPROFILE% as your UNC Root.
Steven Burrows
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Hi all, They currently direct outputs to the user’s H: drive. However, they want to move away from user h: drives toward OneDrive. One way they have been addressing this is updating the Citrix platform by mapping
OneDrive as drive letter U: (one of the issues they confronted was MFA hence why they are upgrading to Server 2019). |
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