Posts made by Ambarishrh

@dashrender said in Edge crash:

Ug.. upgrades... what other software do you have installed?

Can you skip 1709 and go to 1803?

Will try this today

@black3dynamite said in Edge crash:

Try this to fix the crashes.
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-to-reset-microsoft-edge-windows-10

Ive tried that already and didnt help

@dbeato said in Edge crash:

@ambarishrh said in Edge crash:

I guess there are not many fans of Edge browser here, but would really help if someone can help me troubleshoot this issue.

After we upgraded to Windows 10 1709, Edge browser crashes. It opens, stays for few seconds with a white screen and closes. Already tried all possible fixes suggested on public forums (repair/reset the app from Apps & Features, removing Edge folder from AppData and reinstalling from PowerShell etc.)

After spending some time, I had some success when I disabled the Control Flow Guard. After disabling that and a restart, Edge opened but only once! Next time when I tried opening the browser it started crashing again.

have you installed the Cumulative Updates or tried with a computer with Fresh install of Windows 10 1709?

Several machines that were built from our master image works fine till we upgrade. So its a common issue on this build I guess and could see several users posting same issue in MS community as well.

Anyone know how to troubleshoot an app crash using tools like process monitor?

I guess there are not many fans of Edge browser here, but would really help if someone can help me troubleshoot this issue.

After we upgraded to Windows 10 1709, Edge browser crashes. It opens, stays for few seconds with a white screen and closes. Already tried all possible fixes suggested on public forums (repair/reset the app from Apps & Features, removing Edge folder from AppData and reinstalling from PowerShell etc.)

After spending some time, I had some success when I disabled the Control Flow Guard. After disabling that and a restart, Edge opened but only once! Next time when I tried opening the browser it started crashing again.

@ambarishrh said in Looking for alternatives for Dropbox personal:

I signed up for the personal version of OneDrive (monthly for now) as I still have my Dropbox account active till September, that will give me enough time to test out all functionalities and make the switch.

My plan is to move the entire dropbox files to OneDrive and work as usual with the "file on demand" enabled for the next 2 months and see how it goes. The longer process is moving files from Dropbox to OneDrive. I've now disabled selective sync and syncing the entire Dropbox library to my local hard drive and then move the data from DB to OD locally and let it sync up to OD. Camera upload enabled on OD as well.

I downloaded my entire dropbox folders to local machine by removing selective sync and enabling sync all files/folders, but seems to be huge difference in the size. Total size on disk is 262GB but dropbox usage shows 577 GB. Not sure how to solve this!

@ambarishrh said in Evaluating OneDrive for Business to replace traditional end point backup:

@scottalanmiller said in Evaluating OneDrive for Business to replace traditional end point backup:

@ambarishrh said in Evaluating OneDrive for Business to replace traditional end point backup:

@scottalanmiller said in Evaluating OneDrive for Business to replace traditional end point backup:

@ambarishrh said in Evaluating OneDrive for Business to replace traditional end point backup:

@scottalanmiller said in Evaluating OneDrive for Business to replace traditional end point backup:

@ambarishrh said in Evaluating OneDrive for Business to replace traditional end point backup:

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/redirect-windows-known-folders-to-onedrive-e1b3963c-7c6c-4694-9f2f-fb8005d9ef12?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/use-group-policy-to-control-onedrive-sync-client-settings-0ecb2cf5-8882-42b3-a6e9-be6bda30899c?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US

could be an option to set the redirection & configuration via GPO

Getting files TO ODfB is relatively easy. Protecting them on there, is the pain. Totally doable, just a pain.

I am curious to know about the protecting part, does it mean someone lost files from ODFB?

Well I have, for one

But I'm not saying ODfB is scary, just that it doesn't have traditional backups taken of it unless you use a third party product that does that. So think of it like NextCloud, you'd want to take backups of your NextCloud server, you'll want to take them of ODfB, too.

Maybe I should think of stopping the endpoint backup and think of having ODFB and then use something like Veeam backup for O365?

Yes, that's not a bad idea.

We do have our mail backup on Barracuda Mail archiver, so I need to find something specific to SharePoint & ODFB only

Anyone using any products for ODFB backup

@scottalanmiller said in Evaluating OneDrive for Business to replace traditional end point backup:

@ambarishrh said in Evaluating OneDrive for Business to replace traditional end point backup:

@scottalanmiller said in Evaluating OneDrive for Business to replace traditional end point backup:

@ambarishrh said in Evaluating OneDrive for Business to replace traditional end point backup:

@scottalanmiller said in Evaluating OneDrive for Business to replace traditional end point backup:

@ambarishrh said in Evaluating OneDrive for Business to replace traditional end point backup:

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/redirect-windows-known-folders-to-onedrive-e1b3963c-7c6c-4694-9f2f-fb8005d9ef12?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/use-group-policy-to-control-onedrive-sync-client-settings-0ecb2cf5-8882-42b3-a6e9-be6bda30899c?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US

could be an option to set the redirection & configuration via GPO

Getting files TO ODfB is relatively easy. Protecting them on there, is the pain. Totally doable, just a pain.

I am curious to know about the protecting part, does it mean someone lost files from ODFB?

Well I have, for one

But I'm not saying ODfB is scary, just that it doesn't have traditional backups taken of it unless you use a third party product that does that. So think of it like NextCloud, you'd want to take backups of your NextCloud server, you'll want to take them of ODfB, too.

Maybe I should think of stopping the endpoint backup and think of having ODFB and then use something like Veeam backup for O365?

Yes, that's not a bad idea.

We do have our mail backup on Barracuda Mail archiver, so I need to find something specific to SharePoint & ODFB only

@scottalanmiller said in Evaluating OneDrive for Business to replace traditional end point backup:

@ambarishrh said in Evaluating OneDrive for Business to replace traditional end point backup:

@scottalanmiller said in Evaluating OneDrive for Business to replace traditional end point backup:

@ambarishrh said in Evaluating OneDrive for Business to replace traditional end point backup:

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/redirect-windows-known-folders-to-onedrive-e1b3963c-7c6c-4694-9f2f-fb8005d9ef12?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/use-group-policy-to-control-onedrive-sync-client-settings-0ecb2cf5-8882-42b3-a6e9-be6bda30899c?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US

could be an option to set the redirection & configuration via GPO

Getting files TO ODfB is relatively easy. Protecting them on there, is the pain. Totally doable, just a pain.

I am curious to know about the protecting part, does it mean someone lost files from ODFB?

Well I have, for one

But I'm not saying ODfB is scary, just that it doesn't have traditional backups taken of it unless you use a third party product that does that. So think of it like NextCloud, you'd want to take backups of your NextCloud server, you'll want to take them of ODfB, too.

Maybe I should think of stopping the endpoint backup and think of having ODFB and then use something like Veeam backup for O365?

@scottalanmiller said in Evaluating OneDrive for Business to replace traditional end point backup:

@ambarishrh said in Evaluating OneDrive for Business to replace traditional end point backup:

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/redirect-windows-known-folders-to-onedrive-e1b3963c-7c6c-4694-9f2f-fb8005d9ef12?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/use-group-policy-to-control-onedrive-sync-client-settings-0ecb2cf5-8882-42b3-a6e9-be6bda30899c?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US

could be an option to set the redirection & configuration via GPO

Getting files TO ODfB is relatively easy. Protecting them on there, is the pain. Totally doable, just a pain.

I am curious to know about the protecting part, does it mean someone lost files from ODFB?

@scottalanmiller said in Evaluating OneDrive for Business to replace traditional end point backup:

So you plan to have a backup tool that will take a backup of the ODfB? In that case, seems reasonable.

I was thinking of replacing the backup tool and just use ODFB

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/redirect-windows-known-folders-to-onedrive-e1b3963c-7c6c-4694-9f2f-fb8005d9ef12?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/use-group-policy-to-control-onedrive-sync-client-settings-0ecb2cf5-8882-42b3-a6e9-be6bda30899c?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US

could be an option to set the redirection & configuration via GPO

We currently have an endpoint backup solution for our users Desktop & My Documents folders. C Drive is hidden from users via GPO, so the only available location for them to access is Desktop & My Documents. Since a lot of the users are offsite (some of them are on actual work sites where there is no internet, they usually come back to the office after few days and update their works) we find it difficult to get all of their backup completed successfully as it is very rare that the user is available at the same time the backup scheduled on his/her machine. It's not a real-time backup solution, instead, a traditional scheduled backup and due to the fact that users might not be available online during the set time of backup schedule, I am looking for alternatives which sync the files as and when they have internet available.

We have O365E3 and ODFB 1TB/user, I am thinking of using that and stop the old backup. I've moved my Desktop & MyDocuments folders to ODFB location and is syncing the folders there. Files are still syncing and I will be testing this for few weeks. The ideal option is to set this for all users, but doing this manually (redirecting Desktop & MyDocuments) for all of our users would be a time-consuming task.

Maybe will inform the users that they have to keep all their files under the OneDrive folder and only that will be backed-up and stop them from using Desktop & MyDocuments as a policy and enable longer retention on ODFB admin center.

I would like to hear from you all about this, and share any experiences you have with ODFB with the latest client.

I signed up for the personal version of OneDrive (monthly for now) as I still have my Dropbox account active till September, that will give me enough time to test out all functionalities and make the switch.

My plan is to move the entire dropbox files to OneDrive and work as usual with the "file on demand" enabled for the next 2 months and see how it goes. The longer process is moving files from Dropbox to OneDrive. I've now disabled selective sync and syncing the entire Dropbox library to my local hard drive and then move the data from DB to OD locally and let it sync up to OD. Camera upload enabled on OD as well.

@jaredbusch said in Looking for alternatives for Dropbox personal:

ODfB now uses the same sync mechanism as OD does.

I have a small client that replaced a server with ODfB years ago. I did continualyl have minor issues because of number of files they had in the "shared" folder and in the personal folders.

After things updated to the current mechanism, those problems have ceased.

The only time users have issues now is when they make use of the "preview pane" inside Windows Explorer. Since that technically opens a file for reading, their excel files get weird lock errors sometimes.
found that large amount of folder/file download only work with IE for ODFB!

@obsolesce said in Looking for alternatives for Dropbox personal:

@ambarishrh said in Looking for alternatives for Dropbox personal:

I remember reading about a lot of sync issues with OneDrive previously and thought someone has feedback about that with the latest version. Will watch this space and also test out with my free package that I have!

I tried OneDrive for Business in the enterprise a few years ago. It had problems, but they were all due to a certain set of users who were trying to sync many hundreds of thousands of files... I assume now it's because of then sync limits.

Now that OneDrive for Business has gotten much better over the years, I'd be willing to try it again if I had a set value of the sync limits and that nobody would be over them.

Could be a separate discussion, I am currently evaluating ODFB to use it for our users replacing their personal folders on their computers as an alternative for an end point backup solution. Just started testing it out from today!

I remember reading about a lot of sync issues with OneDrive previously and thought someone has feedback about that with the latest version. Will watch this space and also test out with my free package that I have!

I just got the new Samsung S9+ and with that I guess there is 100GB free account, let me test that out as well and see

@jaredbusch said in Looking for alternatives for Dropbox personal:

@Ambarishrh Smart Sync as described is not a feature that the Nextcloud Desktop client has.

The Nextcloud iOS and Android apps do this.

Thanks for the update. My major reason to move off dropbox is this feature and need to pay double to get it on Dropbox

@obsolesce said in Looking for alternatives for Dropbox personal:

@black3dynamite said in Looking for alternatives for Dropbox personal:

You might be better off staying with Dropbox. Especially since Dropbox is available on more platforms unlike OneDrive unless you are planning on staying with Windows/Mac only.

The right question is whether or not he's going to need to Sync to a device that is not supported with OneDrive. I haven't yet.

As of now, my personal devices are Win & Mac. One day when Surface Pro is fully compatible with Fedora or similar, I might use dual boot and if all good will switch, but i dont see that happening anytime soon!