#Onedrive sync client script error install

Read Choose which OneDrive folders to sync to your computerВ for more information. If you had chosen to sync only some foldersВ before the reset, you will need to do that again once sync has completed. Resetting OneDrive disconnects all your existing sync connections (including personalВ OneDriveВ and OneDrive for work or schoolВ if set up).В You won't lose files or data by resettingВ OneDrive on your computer. If you're not sure which OneDrive app you have, read Which OneDrive app do I have? New technologies drive me and cloud is where we live now.To reset other versions of OneDrive, read Reset OneDrive.

Note that special character file names are still not available for On-Premise SharePoint environments.ДЄnupam Shrivastava, a learner, explorer, traveler and tech enthusiast. Once the sync starts working, you can see the file status as synced in the file explorer, with a green icon. Went ahead and re-ran the PowerShell script and voilaД®ven though the command output now says the property has been set to вЂњAllowedвЂќ, it might still take between a few hours to a day before your synchronization starts working for files having special characters. Well, I manually uninstalled and installed this latest version.

#Onedrive sync client script error install

But when tried to install that it complained that I would have to Uninstall the older version first. So, I went toВ and downloaded the latest version ofВ SharePoint Online Management Shell. Get-SPOTenant | Format-List SpecialCharactersStateInFileFolderNamesДЄnd was greeted with the error message right awayДЄpparently, I didnвЂ™t have вЂњlatestвЂќ latest version of SharePoint Online Management Shell рџ™Ѓ Another Try Set-SPOTenant -SpecialCharactersStateInFileFolderNames Allowed You will need to be at least SharePoint Administrator to Run this command. This script works even if your admin account has Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) enabled. So, I just went ahead and opened the Shell and typed the below commands. I already had the latest version of SharePoint Online Management Shell installed.

Once you have the latest OneDrive client, all you need to do is to set the Office 365 tenant property вЂњ SpecialCharactersStateInFileFolderNamesвЂќ to Allowed First Attempt If you find thatвЂ™s the case in your environment from here Old OneDrive client is named вЂњOneDrive for BusinessвЂќ and if you look at the file properties, you will find itвЂ™s Groove.exe. You can find that by looking into the OneDrive client properties To start with first ensure that you are using the latest version of OneDrive Client aka OneDrive.exe and NOT Groove.exe. In this case as expected, itвЂ™s the file having the # character.Д¬ontrary to the statement вЂњ All existing Office 365 Tenants that have not opted into # and % support by H2 2017 will have # and % support enabled by default.вЂќ mentioned in this article, I found that this support did not get enabled by default in the Office 365 tenants which were provisioned in 2016. If you click on the highlighted message, you will see the detail about which files it could not sync. You will see OneDrive Client also shows an icon highlighting some issue with synchronization and when clicked it will show the message вЂњCanвЂ™t upload filesвЂќ. If used, those files wonвЂ™t be synchronized with SharePoint Online or OneDrive for Business using OneDrive Client. Just to highlight the problem again, by default for all Office 365 Tenants provisioned before June 2017, # and % characters canвЂ™t be used in the file names.

The problem is more evident with auto generated file names like reports generated by external systems which they wanted to store in OneDrive. Recently I found a few organizations who have been using SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business for more than a year now and still struggling with synchronizing files having % and # characters in the name.