“Silently sign in users to the OneDrive sync client with their Windows credentials” seems to have stopped working

Question

GPO setting “Silently sign in users to the OneDrive sync client with their Windows credentials” seems to have stopped working since we switched from ADFS to a hosted 3nd party provider. I seem to recall Microsoft has an Office 365 system to desktop apps to authenticate. I cannot remember what the service was named.

Answer 1

@Carl94580345

Do you mean the SSO?
If yes, please verify that SSO is working correctly manually.
As the link suggested, you need to temporarily force ADAL on by running following command.
reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\OneDrive /v EnableADAL /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
(Serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Before you modify it, back up the registry for restoration in case problems occur.)

As Silently configure user accounts works for computers that are joined to Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), and your issue is also realted to authentication, to better help you, I would suggest you add the tag "azure-active-directory" and "azure-ad-authentication".

Thanks for your understanding.

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Answer 2

I added the registry entry EnableADAL and it broke the OneDrive agent. The agent had no config at all.