Map OneDrive for Business as a network drive


Introduction

Follow the instructions below to map your OneDrive for Business as a network drive. This will allow you to access your OneDrive files the same way you access other files on a departmental share or personal share, but without taking up storage space.

Note: Your files will not be accessible when you do not have an internet connection. Experience may be impacted by slow internet speeds.

Configure OneDrive for Business using File Explorer

  1. Open the Start menu icon Start Menu.
  2. Type the word This PC and open.
  3. Select Map network drive from the top ribbon (if you do not see the ribbon pictured below, click the arrow highlighted in the top-right corner of the File Explorer window to expand it.)

    This PC Window

  4. Select an unused drive letter and paste the URL that was copied in Step 8, leave Reconnect at sign-in checked, and click on Finish.



  5. Your OneDrive for Business folder should now be visible under This PC, as well as listed in the left section of the File Explorer window.

    File explorer

More information

For more information on how to map your OneDrive for Business as a network drive, please review this Microsoft article on troubleshooting mapped network drives that connect to SharePoint Online.