One of the luxuries of using Azure AD and Intune, is that staff can pick up a laptop or sit at a desk and start using an enrolled device.

Once they sign in using their Microsoft 365 account, policies, applications automatically get pushed out – open Outlook, it signs you in, emails start populating, and they can continue like normal. However, we do find staff not utilising OneDrive.

With your Microsoft 365 account (depending on the license), you are granted 1TB of storage, which we find more than enough for the average office user. When you sign into OneDrive on a device, you can ‘backup’ the following locations Desktop, Documents and Pictures.

I use the term backup loosely, as OneDrive is not a backup solution.

Once those locations are ‘backed up’, the data will follow you from device to device – providing the end user signs into OneDrive on a new device. However, why create a step for yourself or the end user when we can automate it with Intune.

In this post, I will share an Intune Configuration to help you achieve the above.

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