Turn off OneDrive Backup notification via gpo or script

Question

Hi

How can I disable this popup, permanently, using gpo or script (without user interaction):

Windows 10 Pro and Windows 11 Pro

I tried setting the following registry keys without success:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Notifications\Settings\Windows.SystemToast.BackupReminder

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Notifications\ Settings\Microsoft.SkyDrive.Desktop

Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

Hi @GSGSGS,

You can disable the backup notification by editing registry:

HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Notifications\ Settings\Microsoft.SkyDrive.Desktop\Enabled = 0 (DWORD)

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Answer 2

I'm also following this thread (but also no solution there so far)
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/16iwimf/how_can_i_prevent_onedrives_turn_on_windows/

Answer 3

The setting works, but there's an extra space in the one pasted here and in the reddit thread

HKCU:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Notifications\Settings\Microsoft.SkyDrive.Desktop\Enabled = 0 (DWORD)

This disabled ALL OneDrive notifications, not just the new one the September CU introduced.

Answer 4

Through machine management systems like Azure Intune you can set a policy registry entry on the Windows machine to prevent machines from allowing configuring the OneDrive sync client with a consumer "personal" Microsoft Account aka MSA. If Personal configuration is blocked by policy, the "Turn on Windows Backup" toast will not be shown since it results in attempting to configure that "Personal" account with the OneDrive sync client. Please see this doc for more details on that setting: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/use-group-policy#prevent-users-from-syncing-personal-onedrive-accounts

Additionally note a remote configuration change was recently made that should have prevented the toast on machines where no MSA account is associated with the machine.