Redirecting known folders to OneDrive with FSlogix, how to control space?

Guys, I cant get a good answer across the web on this one. Normally, when you redirect known folders to one drive, there are GPO's you can run that has storage sense go in and dehydrate files after X days of disuse. That way, onedrive cache doesnt go crazy, and bloat the user profiles. 

How does storagesense work with fslogix? The GPO for this service at its most frequent says to run once per day; how would this service be able to touch files that are locked away in a file that isnt available unless the user just happens to log in? I've even found documenation from Microsoft that says to NOT run storagesense on AVD deployments. So, how do they expect us to keep things tidy? I see guys trying to run logout scripts that re-attribute onedrive files so they are marked to be offline only, but is this chicken before the egg? Seems like this approach would only help once the user logs in again.

Lastly, none of this helps unless the profiles are being defragmented. I know we have a script for that, and microsoft is testing fslogix that does it on user logoff, so at least we have this part of the puzzle solved.

Speaking of fslogix bloat, does anyone else redirect out the teams folders to keep them from being bloated within the user profile? How has that been going? Would love some tips on standard FSlogix redirection setups that you are running, if you dont mind sharing.

 

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Travis Lamming

Does the silence on this one show that I'm in uncharted waters?

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DStephenson

I'm interested in this as well.
Have you looked into doing this with Intune?

I'm thinking you could do the Storage Sense (Use OneDrive and Storage Sense in Windows 10 to manage disk space - Microsoft Support) configuration using Intune and then use the Nerdio Shrink FSLogix Profiles runbook to shrink the FSLogix profile.

Any thoughts on this from the Nerdio team?

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Travis Lamming
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One good thing, Dave, is that the latest fslogix, once they work out the kinks, will defragment/shrink the FSlogix profiles for us when the user exits. So, one less thing to worry about. Cant get a defininitive answer anywhere on storage sense working with fslogix/avd with redirected known folders, at all. 

I have not got into intune much at all yet, but use all the group policy settings for storage sense. I just dont know how it could possibly work unless something runs the process once the fslogix profile is mounted

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Travis Lamming

Well, it seems to be getting worse. Now, Microsoft removed Storage Sense from Windows 11 22h2 Multi-user, so now if we redirect known folders to onedrive in this environment, we have no way to "dehydrate" the files that are opened in one drive in the user's profile. So, the fslogix profile will continue to bloat.
What is the recommended known folder configuration in avd? Move them to their own share out of the profile (for backup and profile size limit purposes) or just keep everything in the fslogix profile and call it a day?

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