Use OneDrive for Business - Amazon AppStream 2.0

Use OneDrive for Business

Note

OneDrive for Business is currently not supported for Linux-based streaming instances.

If your AppStream 2.0 administrator has enabled this file storage option, you can add your OneDrive account to AppStream 2.0. After you add your account and sign in to an AppStream 2.0 streaming session, you can do the following in OneDrive:

  • Open and edit files and folders that you store in OneDrive. Other users cannot access your content unless you choose to share it.

  • Upload and download files between your local computer and OneDrive. Any changes that you make to your files and folders in OneDrive during a streaming session are backed up and synchronized automatically. They are available to you when you sign in to your OneDrive account and access OneDrive outside of your streaming session.

  • When you are working in an application, you can access your files and folders that are stored in OneDrive. Choose File, Open from the application interface and browse to the file or folder that you want to open. To save your changes in a file to OneDrive, choose File, Save from the application and browse to the location in OneDrive where you want to save the file.

  • You can also access OneDrive by choosing My Files from the top left of the AppStream 2.0 toolbar.

To add your OneDrive account to AppStream 2.0

To access your OneDrive during AppStream 2.0 streaming sessions, you must first add your OneDrive account to AppStream 2.0.

  1. In the top left of the AppStream 2.0 toolbar, choose the My Files icon.

  2. In the My Files dialog box, choose Add Storage.

  3. Choose OneDrive.

  4. Under Login accounts, choose the domain for your OneDrive account.

  5. In the Sign in dialog box, enter the sign-in credentials for your account.

  6. After your OneDrive account is added to AppStream 2.0, your OneDrive folder is displayed in My Files.

  7. To work with your files and folders in OneDrive, choose the OneDrive folder and browse to the file or folder you want. If you do not want to work with files in OneDrive during this streaming session, close the My Files dialog box.

To upload and download files between your local computer and your OneDrive

  1. In the top left of the AppStream 2.0 toolbar, choose the My Files icon.

  2. In the My Files dialog box, choose OneDrive.

  3. Navigate to an existing folder, or choose Add Folder to create a folder.

  4. When the folder is displayed, do one of the following:

    • To upload a file to the folder, select the file that you want to upload, and choose Upload.

    • To download a file from the folder, select the file that you want to download, choose the down arrow to the right of the file name, and choose Download.

To remove OneDrive permissions from AppStream 2.0

If you no longer want to use OneDrive during your AppStream 2.0 streaming sessions, follow these steps to remove OneDrive permissions from AppStream 2.0.

Note

You can restore these permissions at any time during an AppStream 2.0 streaming session.

  1. Sign in to Office 365 or OneDrive for Business.

  2. In the right pane, under My accounts, choose My account.

  3. On the account dashboard page, in App permissions, choose Change app permissions.

  4. On the App permissions page, under Amazon AppStream 2.0, choose Revoke.