Dehydration of onedrive cache from fslogix profiles

A need for a feature (may be in the Scripted actions) to "Dehydrate onedrive cache from fslogix user profiles". 

Explanation: Onedrive per user usually provides around 1 TB for users whereas fslogix by default provides 30 GB. If the user makes files from onedrive locally available, then the fslogix profile completely fills up.
Therefore, there is a need to dehydrate the onedrive cache (which actually makes the "locally available files" back to "Online-only"). This new feature in addition with the fslogix profile shrinking, would make sure the fslogix profiles are not bloated.

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DStephenson

I know Microsoft lets us handle this issue with an Intune Configuration Profile or GPO.
Would either of those work in your environment(s)?

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Meer Rahil Ali Khan

Thanks for the quick response, Dave. We will give a try with any of those, and see if that works. I referred the GPO article and the Option#1 in the articles looks promising. I can comment after we implement that.

Thanks again! 

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Meer Rahil Ali Khan

Lets say, the storage sense is setup for once per day for rehydration of onedrive cache. But we would definitely be in a scenario wherein fslogix user profiles are unmounted from AVD at the time storage sense runs once per day. 

Do you think there is any solution for that?

I believe that is one of the reason, I suggested, may be we need a "Scripted action - Azure runbook" in nerdio, wherein - "AT THE TIME OF FSLOGIX USER PROFILE MOUNT/UNMOUNTS" to the Virtual desktop, the runbook does the storage sense's job of rehydration of onedrive cache from the fslogix profile??

Could you please let me know your views on it.

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Gido Veekens

Thanks Meer Rahil Ali Khan and DStephenson, those are interesting suggestions. I understand the challenge with the scenario of Onedrive filling up the FSlogix profile. For Intune joined session hosts, it's quite easy to deploy a configuration profile which does this. But I understand a more granular approach is demanded. I'll do some research and put this on our backlog.

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DStephenson

I know this is an older post, but there was recently THIS Azure Academy "STOP Copying Files in AVD! DO This Instead:" video where he talked about this very thing of cleaning-up OneDrive files.
In the video, he referenced THIS blog post that has a way to clean-up OneDrive files for AVDs.

I haven't personally tried it, but it looks promising. 🙂

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