OneDrive installation on multiple RDS-Hosts

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OneDrive installation on multiple RDS-Hosts

Johannes Meditz 21

Dear Microsoft community,

We have the issue that OneDrive cannot be installed on our remote desktop hosts due to the following error message:
It says that "Your OneDrive folder cannot be created in the selected location."

Environment:

2 RDS Hosts Windows Server 2019

1 RDS Gateway with load balancing functions, etc. Also Windows Server 2019 (the user profiles are also located here as VHDs on a separate partition).

The path C:\Users...\OneDrive should therefore be on the gateway server and not locally.

Is it even possible to operate OneDrive via VHD from another server or is that not possible at all?

I've read a post about this before, but it was only about a single RDS host and was solved with an extra partition.
Unfortunately, this solution would not be possible for us because we operate several RDS hosts.

Many thanks in advance for your help and tips, and if more information or screenshots would be useful, I'd be able to provide them.

Regards, Johannes

James Edmonds 831 Reputation points

2022-06-30T22:24:57.67+00:00

I too am investigating giving our RDSH and RemoteApp users access to their OneDrive folders whilst on our RDSH servers or running RemoteApps.

We too use VHDs to store our user profiles. I am guessing that OneDrive has an issue with junction points, which is how Windows is redirecting the user profile to the VHD.

One thing I am going to test, is to exclude the path from the VHD, which should allow it to be stored locally. We then have to worry about local storage usage on each RDSH/RDRA host, but at least it should give users the ability to use OneDrive on these hosts.

I will feedback on the results of my test.

Cheers
James

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James Edmonds 831 Reputation points

2022-06-30T22:24:57.67+00:00

I too am investigating giving our RDSH and RemoteApp users access to their OneDrive folders whilst on our RDSH servers or running RemoteApps.

We too use VHDs to store our user profiles. I am guessing that OneDrive has an issue with junction points, which is how Windows is redirecting the user profile to the VHD.

One thing I am going to test, is to exclude the path from the VHD, which should allow it to be stored locally. We then have to worry about local storage usage on each RDSH/RDRA host, but at least it should give users the ability to use OneDrive on these hosts.

I will feedback on the results of my test.

Cheers
James

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Leila Kong 3,706

Hello @Johannes Meditz ,

Thanks for your query. It seems not possible to operate OneDrive via VHD from another server. OneDrive does not support concurrent or multiple connections using the same container.

Reference:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fslogix/configure-concurrent-multiple-connections-ht
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/sync-vdi-support

Best regards,
Leila

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Johannes Meditz 21 Reputation points

2022-06-07T06:21:19.897+00:00

Hi Leila,

Thanks for the quick reply, I guess I won't have to look for more errors then.

Is such support for OneDrive possibly planned in the near future or are there alternatives for our environment?

Kind regards,
Johannes
Leila Kong 3,706 Reputation points

2022-06-08T05:33:51.433+00:00

Hello @Johannes Meditz ,

For further professional help, we sincerely recommend that you open a case to Microsoft support: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4341255/support-for-busines
Thanks for your cooperation!

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Lisa 1

Hi,

We have the same problem. Does anyone have a solution?

Regards,
Lisa

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James Edmonds 831

Might have another option for you...

After trying to exclude the OneDrive folder from the VHD via the GUI, it became apparent the GUI doesn't support folder names with spaces in, so was unable to do it this way.
I then tried using powershell (very cumbersome) and couldn't get that to work either.

So, as I could not exclude the OneDrive folder using RDSH VHDs, I have instead deployed FSLogix Profile Containers......
OneDrive now works perfectly :)

This may not be practical for you if you have a large VHD reliant production environment, but could get you to where you need to be.

Many thanks
James

Alex Insley 1 Reputation point

2022-11-30T17:54:21.65+00:00

I already have FSLogix in place with 2 RDS session hosts but did not implement OneDrive when setting it up initially (with consulting help). Can you point me to any articles that discuss how to get this working?

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