Auto mapping
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Auto Mapping is the feature of KONNEKT, that automatically maps all SharePoint Online sites & document libraries into the users Windows File Explorer (and other file dialogues). Only sites & libraries, the user has access to, are mapped.
Administrators can control this feature on two levels:
Site level
Library level
KONNEKT updates the mappings every 60 minutes.
Policy Name (ADMX): Sharepoint Sites Query
This policy enables you to define the query string used to find SharePoint sites.
The site query needs to be expressed in KQL. You can find general KQL documentation here:
A list of query properties for SharePoint can be found here:
You can test your KQL site query at this SharePoint Online URL:
In the following paragraphs, you can find some examples for KQL query strings.
If you do not configure this policy, KONNEKT will use the following default KQL query:
This will map all team and communication sites, the user has access to. Private channels of Teams are not in the default site scope
manually by adding the key in the registry under machine or user registry settings
Registry Value name: SharepointSiteQuery
Registry Value type: REG_SZ
Registry Value data: KQL string
Registry Value storage location:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\GlueckKanja\Konnekt
or
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\GlueckKanja\Konnekt
You can find this setting in the preferences menu:
You can also configure this setting via registry/GPO/MDM:
Policy Name (ADMX): Sharepoint Sites Autodiscovery
Key name: O365SharepointUsage Key type: REG_DWORD
Enable or disable access to SharePoint Online sites.
Function
Value
Behavior
Disable
0
KONNEKT maps the OneDrive for Business library, only.
Enable
1
(default)
KONNEKT maps the OneDrive for Business and all default document libraries of the SharePoint Online sites, the user has access to.
The default value is 1 (enable).
You can find this setting in the preferences menu:
You can also configure this setting via registry/GPO/MDM:
Policy Name (ADMX): Add all sharepoint libraries
Key name: AddAllSharepointLibraries Type: REG_DWORD
Function
Value
Behavior
Disable
0
(default)
KONNEKT will map the default document library of the SharePoint Online sites, only.
Format of the UNC addressing is:
\\OneDrive-<tenant-name>\<site-name>\...
Enable
1
KONNEKT will map all document libraries of the SharePoint Online site.
Format of the UNC addressing is:
\\OneDrive-<tenant-name>\<site-name>\<library-name>\...
The default value is 0 (disable)
If users in your company are using different values of this setting, their UNC paths will not be compatible with each other (e.g. when they exchange UNC links).
To prevent this, make sure, that all users use the same value for this setting.
manually by adding the key in the registry under machine or user registry settings
via GPO,
pushing policies via Intune, see
We recommend using our to configure this setting.
We recommend using our to configure this setting.
via GPO, see
pushing policies via Intune, see