officeclient.microsoft.com folder in net shared folders

Question

Good morning,

we notice in my company that in some shared net folders (mapped as M:, O: ...) the folder officeclient.microsoft.com have been automaticaly created. Is this folder necesary? Why is it created?

Thank you

Answer 1

What version of Office do you have? Is it 365 or a year?
Are they Windows 10 machines, or remote desktop, etc.
Anything in common with the machines with these mapped drives?
The officeclient.microsoft.com URL is for online services integrated into office, so I wonder if some setting/registry setting is mapping it.

Answer 2

Hi @Alberto ,

"officeclient.microsoft.com" is the URL that Office access to get web services/ online features. Online features integrated in Office require an Internet connection.

Answer 3

What version of Office do you have? Is it 365 or a year?
Microsoft 365 for companies
Are they Windows 10 machines, or remote desktop, etc.
Both of them. We use microsoft 365 applications in company remote desktop and in local computers, wich have access to net shared folders.
Anything in common with the machines with these mapped drives?
The mapped drives are hosted in a windows server machine. We only use windows (10 and 11) in all computers

I know that officeclient.microsoft.com is an URL, but why in some shared net drives are folders automatically created with that name?