Month: November 2020

This is the best method – work well

Flemming Steffensen, 2017

For our automatic build setup, we needed to fetch some files off a Sharepoint Library.
Sharepoint allows (if configured so) Lists and Libraries to be synchronized to a local folder by using the OneDrive application.
However, the OneDrive application is started when a user logs in, and in an automated build setup, this never happens.
The solusion were to disable the normal auto-start feature of OneDrive, and then install it as a service, and making sure the
service start as the computer starts.

To aid this setup, the excellent NSSM tool (https://nssm.cc/) will be used.

1. Log in to the computer using the user you wish to have OneDrive running as. Ensure this user has local admin rights.
2. Install the latest Onedrive from Microsofts download page: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/onedrive/download
3. Configure OneDrive so that syncing is working.
   If there are security issues, you may have to add trusted sites using IE: IE-Settings→Internet Options→ Security, select Trusted Sites and click on Sites
4. Go to OneDrive settings and ensure to remove the option for OneDrive to start as the user logs in.
   Note, in the future, if you need access to the GUI, you will have to ensure the service we create is stopped, before running the OneDrive.exe as normal.
5. Open a command prompt, and change directory to the place you have installed NSSM.
6. Install the Onedrive Service by issuing the following in the command prompt: nssm.exe install “Onedrive Sync NSSM-Service”
7. In the GUI that follows, configure the tabs as follows:
   Application TAB
   Path: C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Microsoft\OneDrive\OneDrive.exe
   Startup Directory: C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Microsoft\OneDrive\OneDrive.exe
   Details Tab
   Display Name: OneDrive Sync
   Description: Onedrive Sync Service installed using NSSM.
   Startup Type: Automatic Log On
   This Account:
   Password: Correct password of
   Confirm: Correct password of Dependencies: Leave as default Process
   Priority: Normal
   Affinity: Select “All processor”
   Console window: Select Shutdown: Leave as default Exit actions: Leave as default I/O
   Input (stdin):
   Output (stdout): C:\OnedriveService.log
   Output (stderr): C:\OnedriveService.log File rotation
   Replace existing… Not selected
   Rotate files Selected
   Rotate while running Selected
   Restrict rotation to older 0 seconds
   Restrict rotation to bigger 100000 bytes Environment: Leave as default End by selecting: Install
8. In Windows Services, located the new OneDrive service, and change the startup settings to run as and provide the password.
9. In Windows Services, start the new OneDrive service.
10. Verify that the synchronozation is still working.
11. Log out of the account or even better, restart the computer.
12. Use your automatic build setup to verify that the synchronization is still working.

And thats all, Folks.

Autor Link: https://gist.github.com/f-steff