OneDrive sync error: ‘You are already syncing this account’

This message appeared on plenty of end user devices across many of my clients when they try to synchronize their SharePoint Libraries using OneDrive sync client (Not OneDrive library itself though), no big deal, it was all about browser in our case (could differ in some case as well, I presume). The exact error is ‘You’re already syncing this account’. Open your OneDrive – Your Organization Name folder or sign in with a different account’

A common nature of the scenario was that, everyone got this error was using either Microsoft Edge or Internet Explorer. The immediate solution was using an alternative browser instead, we tried Chrome and it worked like charm.

When Chrome prompted options, choose: ‘Open URL : OneDrive client protocol’

And, you can now start syncing the library

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Get End User OneDrive URL with PowerShell

This minor task was part of a major activity I carried out for one of the clients recently here in Australia. Used the SharePoint PnP PowerShell to do this, pretty simple with the commands and controls it offers.

SharePoint PnP cmdlets reference – https://github.com/SharePoint/PnP-PowerShell

First and foremost, ensure you have installed the latest PnP module in your machine. Run this cmdlet to get the latest bits installed

Update-Module SharePointPnPPowerShell*

Now verify the version by running this

Get-Module SharePointPnPPowerShell* -ListAvailable | Select-Object Name,Version | Sort-Object Version -Descending

Firstly you must connect to SharePoint Online using Connect-PnPOnline cmdlet (none MFA environments)

$cred = Get-Credential
Connect-PnPOnline -Url https://<tenant>-admin.sharepoint.com/ -Credentials $cred

If your Office 365 Environment is MFA enabled, use this instead (Notice the login is different to the traditional method)

Connect-PnPOnline -Url https://sitename-admin.sharepoint.com -UseWebLogin

Now we can run the Get-PnPUserProfileProperty cmdlet to get the information about the user’s profile and select only the PersonalUrl which is the URL of that user’s OneDrive for Business.

$username = "<UserName>"
$OneDriveUrl = Get-PnPUserProfileProperty -Account $username | select PersonalUrl
$OneDriveUrl

$username = "<UserName>" $OneDriveUrl = Get-PnPUserProfileProperty -Account
$username | select PersonalUrl

There is it ! that’s the ultimate end user URL of OneDrive