If you have user profile management or a “one user one laptop” policy then your users might forgive you for a one off, slow logon. If your users files aren’t there within a minute you’re gonna be hunted down. The Desktop is a pretty obvious thing when you log on. This feature lets you redirect your users Documents, Pictures, and Desktop folder to OneDrive automatically. “We want everything and we want it now” are the user chants that drift into our team – with rhythmic resemblance to war drums being beaten from a civilization who have just caught their first sniff of hot gravy.Īn awesome OneDrive feature that now demands we make files available ASAP is “Known Folder Move” (KFM).

Maybe our users have different expectations. If OneDrive wasn’t installed in the User’s Profile (unlikely for a new profile), it would go and throw the binaries in %localappdata%, check for updates, twiddle its thumbs and eventually download some files or stubs.

After the user profile is created (another post coming soon on tweaking the speed of this), OneDriveSetup.exe was called from the Default User Hive “Run” key. Waiting for the OneDrive sync client to “do its thing” reminded me of that one kid in the class that could be awesome if they tried harder. One of the things I have been trying to improve is the users “first logon” experience in Windows 10.

Install onedrive folder