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Monitor FileExplorer until the OneDrive directory appears in the left navigation panel.Login to Windows 10 with a Microsoft Account, or use the Settings > Accounts to associate a Microsoft Account with your login account.The personal settings come from the fact that OneDrive requires a Microsoft Account.Ī simple demonstration of OneDrive might follow this sequence: Nothing here about configuring personal settings.Įven Microsoft’s Get Started with Windows 10 – One Drive on your PC offers sparse information.

Most OneDrive synchronization articles (like this particularly useful one from OneGeek ) clearly share how to configure folder selection. I missed the ramifications until I had conducted a few demonstrations. Nice feature … TURN IT OFF … at least until you clearly know what it implies. The promotion shares “ When you sign in with a Microsoft account, your PC is connected to Microsoft servers online, or “the cloud.” This means that your personal settings and preferences are stored in OneDrive, and are synced to any PC that you sign in to.” The capability is extended to Windows 10. Microsoft provided a simplified OneDrive introductory video commensurate with the release of Windows 8/8.1. Due to the requirement for a Microsoft Account, host operating systems are capable of synchronizing personal settings as well as folder structures and files under the OneDrive application interface.

OneDrive requires the use of a Microsoft account (msn.com,, , or ). Microsoft provides an Office support site with more details and requirements. OneDrive may be used to synchronize files across Windows Vista SP2, Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1, Windows 10, Windows Server 2008 R2, Mac OS X, as well as a range of mobile platforms. In the demonstration, we synchronize two virtual Windows 10 systems.

In fact, repeated demonstrations have taught me a few lessons that suggest you may want to more carefully plan before you rely on OneDrive and end up with a few more elements synchronized than you had planned. The demonstration focuses on file synchronization, although OneDrive offers considerably more. While teaching our Installing and Configuring Windows 10 course we introduce OneDrive.