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Good morning! September patches for W11 were kind enough to stick this in my users' faces:


Not a big deal to me, but as is commonly the case, most of my users panic if they see something they are unaccustomed to seeing. I've been looking for a way to suppress this with GPO or with a registry entry but have not had much luck finding anything yet. Has anyone else come across a solution?

Just click "No Thanks" and that should be the end of the matter.

If not, then try Settings > Accounts > Windows backup to disable the feature. Or follow this Forum tutorial:

iko22 said:

Just click "No Thanks" and that should be the end of the matter.

If not, then try Settings > Accounts > Windows backup to disable the feature. Or follow this Forum tutorial:

Turn On or Off OneDrive Folder Backup Syncing Across Windows 11 Devices Tutorial

This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off OneDrive folder sync for your Microsoft account across all your Windows 10 and Windows 11 devices you sign in with the same Microsoft account. You can use OneDrive to sync files and folders between your computer and the cloud, so you can get to...

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Yes, individually I get this, but to blanket change it over 200 machines? thats why i'm looking for a GPO solution.

Right now, there isn't a provided GPO to neatly disable just this one notification. Two of the workarounds floating on Reddit are:
- disable all recent app notifications
- disable all OneDrive notifications

Understandably, any real admin knows both options create a different set of headaches by hiding other notifications you really should care about. Unless of course, your workplace doesn't allow OneDrive.

garlin said:

Right now, there isn't a provided GPO to neatly disable just this one notification. Two of the workarounds floating on Reddit are:
- disable all recent app notifications
- disable all OneDrive notifications

Understandably, any real admin knows both options create a different set of headaches by hiding other notifications you really should care about. Unless of course, your workplace doesn't allow OneDrive.

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Yep, I've been around the google and reddit solutions; and in both cases, neither solution stops that popup, it will just prevent further notifications. We're just getting into 365, and we don't use OneDrive yet, but we probably will. I just thought I'd try here; I'm sure something will come out in the next few weeks.

This is from Winaero. I am unable to test it will remove the notification in question. I mention it because I think it is different to the suggestions already posted.

To disable the cloud backup offer and stop OneDrive from moving your folders:
Open command prompt as Administrator by pressing Win + R, typing cmd.exe in the Run box, and then pressing Ctrl + Shift + Enter.
In the elevated command prompt window, type or paste the following command:
reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\OneDrive /v KFMBlockOptIn /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f.
Hit Enter to disable the cloud backup offer and stop OneDrive from moving your folders.
Done. You can now close the console.

For your convenience, you can undo the change from the command prompt as well with the following command.
reg delete HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\OneDrive /v KFMBlockOptIn /f

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iko22 said:

For your convenience, you can undo the change from the command prompt as well with the following command.
reg delete HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\OneDrive /v KFMBlockOptIn /f

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How to disable User Folder Backup to OneDrive

The automatic user folder backup in OneDrve is one the things many would like to disable, as it silently moves your files in desktop, documents, pictures,

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I recently got informed by users that they get prompted to use OneDrive backup. The thing is that those users are working on domain-joined machines. According to the documentation the prompt to move known folders to OneDrive should be blocked on domain-joined PCs.
Then I went through the effort to implement a specific group policy:
"Prevent users from moving their Windows known folders to OneDrive" which corretly set the registry value.
[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\OneDrive]"KFMBlockOptIn"=dword:00000002

However... what should I say. It's ignored by OneDrive. Neither the menu to sync folders to OneDrive is blocked nor the .possibility to enable the "backup" for those folders. Also a value of 2 should even move back already moved folders to local profile but id does not do anything. Instead the users can still move additional folders to OneDrive.
The value of KFMBlockOptIn of 2 or 1 does not matter. The policy seems to be completely ignored.

This seems to apply at least to OneDrive Build 23.196.0919.001 I am using.

Not sure if this is an "intentional bug" but it's annoying to the users and if they accidentally enable the setting data might be ending up on public cloud where it shouldn't.