How Do I Get Google Drive to Stream?

To use Google Drive File Stream (Drive FS), you need to follow specific configuration steps. While itopia does not provide support for these configurations, this article aims to provide a step-by-step guide on how to achieve this setup.

The first step is to install the Drive FS utility on each Session Host in your Collection or Collections that users will access. Although every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of this information, please note that this article is provided for informational purposes only and may not be applicable to all situations.

To resolve the issue of multiple users seeing each other's drive folders in a multi-session environment such as Remote Desktop Services, you need to map the Drive FS data to a unique directory for each user. Additionally, you can configure a user-level drive mapping to present the mapped H: drive (or any other drive letter) only to a specific user.

The default behavior provided by Drive FS is to map the user's Google Drive data to a system-wide network drive on their Windows Desktop. This allows users to access their Google Workspace Drive data like a local drive on their Windows desktop. However, in a multi-session environment, this can create an issue where multiple users can see each other's drive folders, although the contents of the drives are inaccessible.

By following these steps and configuring a custom group policy object, you should be able to achieve the desired configuration for your Google Drive File Stream setup.

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