Silently move Windows known folders to OneDrive

This setting lets you redirect known folders to OneDrive without any user interaction. In sync app builds below 18.171.0823.0001, this setting only redirects empty known folders to OneDrive (or known folders already redirected to a different OneDrive account). In later builds, it redirects known folders that contain content and moves the content to OneDrive. We recommend using this setting together with "Prompt users to move Windows known folders to OneDrive." If moving the known folders silently does not succeed, users will be prompted to correct the error and continue.

If you enable this setting and provide your tenant ID, you can choose whether to display a notification to users after their folders have been redirected.

You can move all folders at once or select the folders you want to move. After a folder is moved, this policy will not affect that folder again, even if you clear the check box for the folder.

If you disable or do not configure this setting, your users' known folders will not be silently redirected and/or moved to OneDrive.

Supported on: At least Windows 7

Tenant ID:

Registry HiveHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Registry PathSOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\OneDrive
Value NameKFMSilentOptIn
Value TypeREG_SZ
Default Value
Show notification to users after folders have been redirected:


  1. No
    Registry HiveHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
    Registry PathSOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\OneDrive
    Value NameKFMSilentOptInWithNotification
    Value TypeREG_DWORD
    Value0
  2. Yes
    Registry HiveHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
    Registry PathSOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\OneDrive
    Value NameKFMSilentOptInWithNotification
    Value TypeREG_DWORD
    Value1

Folder Options:

Desktop
Registry HiveHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Registry PathSOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\OneDrive
Value NameKFMSilentOptInDesktop
Value TypeREG_DWORD
Default Value1
True Value1
False Value0
Documents
Registry HiveHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Registry PathSOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\OneDrive
Value NameKFMSilentOptInDocuments
Value TypeREG_DWORD
Default Value1
True Value1
False Value0
Pictures
Registry HiveHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Registry PathSOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\OneDrive
Value NameKFMSilentOptInPictures
Value TypeREG_DWORD
Default Value1
True Value1
False Value0

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