OneDriveExplorer Offline Mode Edition

Changes to OneDriveExplorer (ODE)

With this release, there are a few things to be aware of that have changed with the GUI and command line version.

GUI

The ODE GUI now has a profile selection. This is to make things easier so we don't have to point to certain files/folders for parsing settings data and logs. The options are still there but this is meant more for if you have a loose collection of files.

With the profile option, all we need to do is select the profile folder %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\OneDrive and ODE will do the rest. Logs will only be parsed if the Enable ODL log parsing option is enabled in the preferences.
The GUI can now indicate if the account is Personal or Business.

Command Line

With the command line, there is a new argument (--output-dir) to designate the save folder location. There is no longer a need to add a directory to --csv, --html, or --json. These arguments are now used to indicate what type of output you want the data stored in. Also, --csvf has been dropped.

New Additions

OneDrive Offline Mode

OneDrive for Business has a feature called Offline Mode that allows you to continue to use the web version of OneDrive without an internet connection. If you want to learn more, I had written about it in another article. In order for the database (Microsoft.ListSync.db) to populate, Offline Mode needs to be set up. First off, the feature needs to be pushed to your tenant by Microsoft (I believe Microsoft has finished rolling this out). Offline Mode is enabled by default but can be disabled via group policy. When you navigate to OneDrive for web, if you see a computer icon in the upper right of the page, Offline Mode is enabled and ready.

Once this is done, the Offline Mode database will be populated. There are also some limitations that might not allow Offline Mode to be enabled. See the Current limitations of offline mode section for more information.

What does this bring to OneDriveExplorer

With new features bring new data. So what kind of data does OneDriveExplorer get from Offline Mode? In addition to knowing a file/folder is shared, we can now see who it is shared with.

Another interesting artifact of this is seeing what other people have shared and to whom. If we look at a folder that was linked to OneDrive, the shared data is present, even though we did not do the sharing.

Another data point Offline Mode brings to ODE is OCR (Optical Character Recognition). Here is an example of the data in ODE verses the actual image.

More to come

There is still a lot of data to go through with Offline Mode that can be added to ODE. Additional work will be done to have a dedicated parser for Microsoft.ListSync.db for instances where that is the only file you have available. The latest version of OneDriveExplorer can be found here.