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Hello everyone, welcome to Windows 8 feature tech talk.
Today I am glad to introduce SkyDrive to you.
SkyDrive is a cloud based solution which allows you to keep data and settings in the cloud
and synch with all your Windows 8 devices easily.
With SkyDrive, you'll get a "cloud backpack"
where you can store, create and access all of your documents, notes, photos or files from anywhere.
You can view and manage your personal SkyDrive directly from Windows Explorer on your PC.
SkyDrive has no specific hardware requirements.
You can run SkyDrive on a 32 or 64-bit version of Windows 8,
Windows 7, or Windows Vista with Service Pack 2, Windows Server 2008 R2,
or Windows Server 2008 with Service Pack 2 with a high speed Internet connection.
Now I will demonstrate how to install SkyDrive on a Windows 8 client.
You can use the same method to install it on other supported clients.
First, download the new SkyDrive Apps from https://apps.live.com/skydrive.
Click "Get APP"
and then click "Download".
Save the setup file on your PC.
Here I will save it to my desktop.
After the download finished, double click the setup file to install it on the computer.
The installation will finish in a few seconds.
You will get a Welcome to SkyDrive window, click Get started.
Next Sign in the SkyDrive with the Windows Live account.
If you don't have an account, click Sign up to create a new account.
Here, I will type a Microsoft account, password and click sign in.
After you sign in, the Introducing your SkyDrive folder window appears.
It is configured as C:\Users\username\skydrive folder.
You can configure it as you wish by clicking change button.
Here I will leave it as default and click Next.
You will get a window with the option to choose whether to sync data from this PC with other devices.
By default, the checkbox Make files on this PC available to me on my other devices
will be selected to synch your data stored on SkyDrive.
Leave it and click Done.
The SkyDrive folder pops up when the configuring wizard is finished.
We can see that it syncs my data from the SkyDrive cloud with my device.
To change your configuration settings, you can click the SkyDrive icon in the hidden icon area.
Right click the icon and select settings.
There are three options in General box, Start SkyDrive automatically when I sign in to Windows,
sync data from this PC with other devices and use Office to work on files.
For more details, you can click More Info to get more information.
On this page, it also provides the option to unlink SkyDrive if we don't want to use the current account to serve on this PC.
Now let's go to the notification area and hover the cursor over the SkyDrive icon.
We'll see the sync status.
Now that SkyDrive is installed on my PC, we can copy the files and folders to the SkyDrive Folder.
It will sync them with the web automatically.
Sometimes it's not convenient to copy the files to the SkyDrive folder.
We can add the SkyDrive folder to the SendTo menu.
To do this, navigate to the SkyDrive folder.
By default it is located in the Users directory under your user name.
Right click on SkyDrive and select Create Shortcut.
Rename the shortcut link as you want.
The name will be displayed on the Sendto Menu.
Open Run dialog box by pressing Windows + R keys.
Type shell:sendto in the textbox and press Enter to open SendTo folder.
Copy the SkyDrive shortcut that we have just created to SendTo folder.
Now you can right-click a file and send it to SkyDrive.
Next I will demo how to use script to deploy SkyDrive to multiple clients on Windows Server 2008 R2 DC.
For the purpose of this demo, I've prepared SkyDrive setup package in a Share folder.
I've also created a script file in .txt and rename it as SkyDrive.vbs.
Now, let's go through some of the variables in the script.
The SUserPath is the user profile path.
The SShortcutpath is an alias of the SkyDrive package shortcut.
The SSharePath is the path of SkyDrive setup package.
In this case, it is on \\DC\Share\.
Then the script will detect whether the shortcut already exists on the current user logon desktop,
if not, create the shortcut link and execute the following script.
If it exists, go on executing the following script.
The SSendToPath is an alias of the SendTo menu shortcut.
The SUserSkyDrivepath is the path of the SkyDrive folder.
The script will check whether the shortcut is created on the SendTo menu.
If it exists, nothing happens.
If not, go on to check whether the SkyDrive folder exists.
If it doesn't exist, do nothing
If the SkyDrive exists and no shortcut is created, it will create a shortcut link.
Save and run this script, you will see the SendTo SkyDrive appear on the right-click menu.
Here I won't save it again.
Next we can configure Group Policy to set this script as logon script.
Open Group Policy Management from Administrative Tool.
Assign a new Group Policy to the OU that we want to assign the script and click Edit.
Expand User Configuration> Polices> Windows Settings> Script> Logon.
Click Show files to locate to the logon script path.
Then copy the SkyDrive script to this folder.
And then go back to the logon properties window and click Add.
Browse to the script path, select the script and click OK to apply this group policy.
When users in this OU logon to the Windows clients the next time, it will execute this script.
Let's log on as a user in this OU.
We can see that it creates a shortcut to the SkyDrive setup package path.
Double click this package and it will install the SkyDrive to the current user profile folder on this PC.
When right-clicking a file, we will find there is no SkyDrive on the SendTo menu.
This is because the user first installed SkyDrive apps.
The SendTo menu will be generated when users log on next time.
Log off and Log on again, we can see the SendTo SkyDrive menu appears.
Now we've finished deploying the SkyDrive on multiple Windows clients.
Everything you put in SkyDrive folder will be automatically synced between your computers (PC or Mac) and SkyDrive.com,
so you can get to your latest files from virtually anywhere.
Thanks for your time with us!