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Managing synced SharePoint site data in AVD

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Alex Burnett

With the help of Nerdio, we setup our first customer in Azure Virtual Desktop earlier this year. It's a fairly simple setup with 1 session host and 6 users. Everything has been working great but recently we've started running into FSLogix profile space issues due to OneDrive/SharePoint sync data. This is an oil & gas company that deals with a lot of large well files and geodata that is mostly stored in SharePoint. Users are syncing the SharePoint sites to file explorer in the AVD and with the amount of change going on in that data some users FSLogix profiles are getting very large. We almost immediately had to increase the default 30GB profile limit to 50GB. Now we've again had to up it from 50GB to 100GB. Due to the type of work a few users do we can see the need for their user profiles getting close to 200-250GB.

Are there any better ways to manage this synced SharePoint data, or are there any issues with the FSLogix user profiles being this big in size?

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Tony Cai

100GB's if the absoutely max, either dont sync everything (use selective sync or only sync the data they need and not all sharepoint folders) or use Windows 365 and skip FSLOGIX alltogether. Windows 365 machines can have up to 512GB SSD's per user.

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John Rutkowski

Use Azure Files and Azure File Sync to the server. That allows staging where you can access 13TB on a server that has only 256GB to cache the most recently opened files (And the caching is by the amount of free space or the most recent nn days old.

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John Rutkowski

FYI there is a GPO to redirect the Outlook OST files, to say an Azure File Share. And that cuts down on the space.

Also redirects of Browser cache and Downloads also to Azure File Share, that cuts the porfile size down and you can clear everyones cache via a DEL on the Cache directories.

 

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DStephenson

John Rutkowski, great ideas!
Have you had any end-user complaints by redirecting their OST/Cache/Downloads in an AVD environment?
Or is what you suggested just a possibility, but you don't have any clients currently using it?

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Nerdio Support

We will be introducing Office Containers in the near future which can be used to split that profile into two, one containing just Office related cache data.

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John Rutkowski

We fully deploy Azure File Shares (Premium) for profiles even back in the NFA days, so it has  worked well for years.

Still proving the OST and CACHE redirect, but it is no different AND way easier to cleanup periodically, becasue even if you restrict the Outlook OST age, the file size never shrinks on it's own.

ADn I wans helping in one environment where a prior tech set the thep D Drive to hold browser cahce, but it the Pools were never reimaged, so it would run out of space taking down the environment.

 

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