OneDrive is an Internet-based storage platform with a significant chunk of space offered for free by Microsoft to anyone with a Microsoft account. Think of it as a hard drive in the cloud, which you can share, with a few extra benefits thrown in. One of the primary benefits: OneDrive hooks into Windows 10, at least in fits and starts.

1. Microsoft One Drive App Download
2. Use Microsoft Onedrive As Time Machine
3. Use Microsoft One Drive From Mac To Windows 10
4. Install Onedrive Mac

• Create your best work with the latest versions of Word, Excel and all the other Office apps. Plus, get 1 TB of cloud storage, document sharing, ransomware recovery, and more with OneDrive.
• Store photos and docs online. Access them from any PC, Mac or phone. Create and work together on Word, Excel or PowerPoint documents.
• Login to OneDrive with your Microsoft or Office 365 account.

Microsoft One Drive App Download

Microsoft, of course, wants you to buy more storage, but you’re under no obligation to do so.

As of this writing, OneDrive gives everyone with a Microsoft account 5GB of free storage (down from 15GB free in 2015), with 50GB for $2/month. Many Office 365 subscription levels have 1TB (1,024GB) OneDrive storage, free, for as long as you’re an Office 365 subscriber. (Back in 2015, the Office 365 subscriptions had unlimited storage, but Microsoft giveth and Microsoft taketh away.)

Microsoft’s offers change from time to time, but the general trend is down — prices are going down, fast, and it won’t be too long before most online storage asymptotically approaches free.

Store photos and docs online. Access them from any PC, Mac or phone. Create and work together on Word, Excel or PowerPoint documents.

The free storage is there whether you use your Microsoft account to log in to Windows, even if you never use OneDrive. In fact, if you have a Microsoft account, you’re all signed up for OneDrive.

Many people find OneDrive — at least the Windows 7, 8, and 10 versions of OneDrive — very confusing because, in essence, OneDrive keeps two sets of books. (Windows 8.1 OneDrive, by contrast is quite upfront about the whole process.) In Windows 10’s OneDrive, there’s the whole OneDrive enchilada stored on the web. But there’s a second, shadow, subset of OneDrive folders that are stored on your computer.

Some OneDrive users have all their web-based files and folders stored on their computers, and OneDrive syncs the folders quite quickly — what you see in File Explorer is what’s stored in the cloud, and vice versa. But other OneDrive users have only some of their OneDrive folders on their computers. File Explorer shows them only this subset of folders and hides all the others that are sitting in the cloud.

If you aren’t confused, you obviously don’t understand.

Here’s the full OneDrive shtick:

Use Microsoft Onedrive As Time Machine

• OneDrive does what all the other cloud storage services do — it gives you a place to put your files on the Internet. You need to log in to OneDrive with your Microsoft account (or, equivalently, log in to Windows with your Microsoft account) to access your data.
• If you log in to a different Windows 10 computer using the same Microsoft account, you have access to all your OneDrive data through the web but, surprisingly, not necessarily through File Explorer. In fact, if you look only at Windows File Explorer, you might not even know what data is sitting in your OneDrive storage.

  This is one of the most confusing and dangerous parts of Windows 10. Realize that Windows File Explorer, when looking at OneDrive, is lying to you.

• File Explorer offers a very simple process for copying files from your computer into OneDrive, as long as you want to put the file in a folder that’s visible to File Explorer. File Explorer lets you move files in the other direction, from OneDrive storage onto your local hard drive, but again you must be able to see the file or folder in File Explorer before you can move it.
• You can share files or folders that are stored in OneDrive by sending or posting a link to the file or folder to whomever you want. So, for example, if you want Aunt Martha to be able to see the folder full of pictures of Little Billy, OneDrive creates a link for you that you can email to Aunt Martha. You can also specify that a file or folder is Public, so anyone can see it.
• To work with the OneDrive platform on a mobile device, you can download and install one of the OneDrive programs — OneDrive for Mac, OneDrive for iPhone, iPad, or Android. The mobile apps have many of the same problems that you find in File Explorer in Windows 10.
• In Windows 10, you don’t need to download or install a special program for OneDrive — it’s already baked into Windows.
• If you have the program installed, OneDrive syncs data among computers, phones, and/or tablets that are set up using the same Microsoft account, as soon as you connect to a network. If you change a OneDrive file on your iPad, for example, when you save it, the modified file is put in your OneDrive storage area on the Internet. From there, the new version of the file is available to all other computers with access to the file. Ditto for Android devices.

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This article is for IT administrators managing OneDrive settings in work or school environments. If you're not an IT administrator, read Get started with the new OneDrive sync app on Mac OS X.

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Manage OneDrive settings on macOS using property list (Plist) files

Use the following keys to preconfigure or change settings for your users. The keys are the same whether you run the store edition or the standalone edition of the sync app, but the property list file name and domain name will be different. When you apply the settings, make sure to target the appropriate domain depending on the edition of the sync app.

Standalone	Mac App Store
PList Location	~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.OneDrive.plist	~/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.OneDrive-mac/Data/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.OneDrive-mac.plist
Domain	com.microsoft.OneDrive	com.microsoft.OneDrive-mac

Deploy the sync app settings

Deploy the settings on macOS in the typical way:

1. Quit the OneDrive application.

2. Define the settings you want to change by creating a Plist with the values, or use a script to set the default values.

3. Deploy the settings onto the local computer.

4. Refresh the preferences cache.

   On the next start of OneDrive, the new settings will be picked up.

Overview of settings

The following table lists all the settings that are currently exposed for the OneDrive sync app. You need to configure the parameters in parentheses.

Setting	Description	Parameters	Example Plist Entry
Disable personal accounts	Blocks users from signing in and syncing files in personal OneDrive accounts. If this key is set after a user has set up sync with a personal account, the user will be signed out.	DisablePersonalSync (Bool): When set to true, this parameter prevents users from adding or syncing personal accounts.	<key>DisablePersonalSync</key> <(Bool)/>
Default folder location	Specifies the default location of the OneDrive folder for each organization	TenantID (String): TenantID determines which accounts the default folder location setting should apply to. Find your Office 365 tenant ID DefaultFolderPath (String): DefaultFolder specifies the default folder location. Mac App Store: The path must already exist when users set up the sync app. Standalone: The path will be created on users' computers if it doesn't already exist. Only with the Standalone sync app can you prevent users from changing the location.	<key>Tenants</key> <dict> <key>(TenantID)</key> <dict> <key>DefaultFolder</key> <string>(DefaultFolderPath)</string> </dict> </dict>
Automatic upload bandwidth percentage	Enables the sync app to automatically set the amount of bandwidth used based on available bandwidth for uploading files	AutomaticUploadBandwidthPercentage (int): This parameter determines the percentage of local upload bandwidth that the sync app can use. Accepted values are from 1 through 99.	<key>AutomaticUploadBandwidthPercentage</key> <int>(Bandwidth)</int>
Set maximum upload throughput	Sets the maximum upload throughput rate in kilobytes (KB)/sec for computers running the OneDrive sync app	UploadBandwidthLimited (int): This parameter determines the upload throughput in KB/sec that the sync app can use. The minimum rate is 50 KB/sec and the maximum rate is 100,000 KB/sec.	<key>UploadBandwidthLimited</key> <int>(Upload Throughput Rate in KB/sec)</int>
Set maximum download throughput	Sets the maximum download throughput rate in kilobytes (KB)/sec for computers running the OneDrive sync app	DownloadBandwidthLimited (int): This parameter determines the download throughput in KB/sec that the sync app can use. The minimum rate is 50 KB/sec and the maximum rate is 100,000 KB/sec.	<key>DownloadBandwidthLimited</key> <int>(Download Throughput Rate in KB/sec)</int>
Dock icon	Specifies whether a dock icon for OneDrive is shown	HideDockIcon (Bool): When set to true, this parameter hides the OneDrive dock icon even when the application is running.	<key>HideDockIcon</key> <(Bool)/>
Open at login	Specifies whether OneDrive starts automatically when the user logs in	OpenAtLogin (Bool): When set to true, OneDrive will start automatically when the user logs in on the Mac.	<key>OpenAtLogin</key> <(Bool)/>
Enable Files On-Demand	Specifies whether Files On-Demand is enabled. If you don't set this setting, Files On-Demand will be enabled automatically as we roll out the feature, and users can turn the setting on or off	FilesOnDemandEnabled (Bool): When set to true, new users who set up the sync app will download online-only files by default. When set to false, Files On-Demand will be disabled and users won't be able to turn it on.	<key>FilesOnDemandEnabled</key> <(Bool)/>
Disable download toasts	Prevents toasts from appearing when applications cause file contents to be downloaded	DisableHydrationToast (Bool): When set to true, toasts will not appear when applications trigger the download of file contents.	<key>DisableHydrationToast</key> <(Bool)/>
Block apps from downloading online-only files	Prevents applications from automatically downloading online-only files. You can use this setting to lock down applications that don't work correctly with your deployment of Files On-Demand.	HydrationDisallowedApps (String): Json in the following format [{'ApplicationId':'appId','MaxBundleVersion':'1.1','MaxBuildVersion':'1.0'}] 'AppID' can be either the BSD process name or the bundle display name. MaxBuildVersion denotes the maximum build version of the application that will be blocked. MaxBundleVersion denotes the maximum bundle version of the application that will be blocked	<key>HydrationDisallowedApps </key> <string> [{'ApplicationId':'appId','MaxBundleVersion':'1.1','MaxBuildVersion':'1.0'}, {'ApplicationId':'appId2','MaxBundleVersion':'3.2','MaxBuildVersion':'2.0'}]</string> <(Bool)/>
SharePoint Server Front Door URL	Specifies the SharePoint Server 2019 on-premises URL that the OneDrive sync app should try to authenticate and sync against	SharePointOnPremFrontDoorUrl (string): The URL of the on-premises SharePoint Server.	<key>SharePointOnPremFrontDoorUrl</key> <string>https://Contoso.SharePoint.com</string>
SharePoint Server Tenant Name	Specifies the name of the folder created for syncing the SharePoint Server 2019 files specified in the Front Door URL.	SharePointOnPremTenantName (string): The name that will be used when creating a folder to sync the on-premises SharePoint Server files. If specified, the folder names will take the form of: OneDrive – TenantName TenantName If not specified, the folder names will use the first segment of the FrontDoorURL as the Tenant Name. Example - https://Contoso.SharePoint.com will use Contoso as the Tenant Name	<key>SharePointOnPremTenantName</key> <string>Contoso</string>
SharePoint OnPrem Prioritization	For hybrid scenarios where the email is the same for both SharePoint Server on-premises and SharePoint Online, determines whether or not the client should set up sync for SharePoint Server or SharePoint Online first during the first-run scenario.	SharePointOnPremPrioritizationPolicy (int): This parameter determines which service to attempt to authenticate against for setting up sync. 1 indicates OneDrive should setup SharePoint Server on-premises first, followed by SharePoint Online.	<key>SharePointOnPremPrioritizationPolicy</key> <int>(0 or 1)</int>
BlockExternalSync	Prevents the sync app from syncing libraries and folders shared from other organizations.	BlockExternalSync (Bool): Set to true to prevent syncing OneDrive for Business and SharePoint libraries and folders from organizations other than the user's own organization. Set to false or do not include the setting to allow. Learn about OneDrive B2B Sync.	<key>BlockExternalSync</key> <(Bool)/>

Use Microsoft One Drive From Mac To Windows 10

You can also configure the OneDrive Standalone sync app to receive delayed updates.

PList Location	~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.OneDriveUpdater.plist
Domain	com.microsoft.OneDriveUpdater

Install Onedrive Mac

Setting	Description	Parameters	Example Plist Entry
Tier	Defines the update ring for the computer	UpdateRing (String): This parameter has two different values. Production - The default update ring for OneDrive updates. Insiders - This update ring receives updates that are 'pre-production' and will allow you to play with features before they are released. Note that builds from this ring may be less stable. Enterprise - This update ring receives updates after they have rolled out through the Production ring. It also lets you control the deployment of updates. For more info about the update rings and how the sync app checks for updates, see The OneDrive sync app update process.	<key>Tier</key> <string>(UpdateRing)</string>