Windows updated messing with content centre files and sharepoint/onedrive server

[jake.watson879Z4]

Just updated windows with the July 12 security update as seen below.

July 12, 2022—KB5015807 (OS Builds 19042.1826, 19043.1826, and 19044.1826

After the update and turning my machine off and on again, I've opened up a project and realised that the links to content centre components are broken and all of our templates aren't available to access. 

The way that we use inventor in a shared office is not by using vault. it's by setting the application file paths to %USERPROFILE% or %USERDOCUMENTS% and having a Microsoft share point/one drive server. all of our content centre files are saved to this corporate one drive/sharepoint, all of our templates are saved to this corporate onedrive/sharepoint. 

For some reason it's looking at each computer locally for the content centre files and not on the one drive/sharepoint cloud server. Each time we try and point it in the right location it diverts back to the local users files.

and each time we point it directly at the users computer and select the one drive/sharpoint server files in the browser it gives this error:

Update to this, I have been able to access some of the templates by going into the sharepoint/onedrive folder and selecting "Always keep on this device", however It's consumed an entire day with just downloads.

Is there a fix for this? What exactly is the problem?

Before you suggest using Vault, this system has worked for us for quite some time and it's cheaper.

[johnsonshiue]

Hi! Did you store the CC Library idcl files on OneDrive? If yes, I suggest you map the One Drive path as a logical drive.

Then go to Tools -> App Options -> Content Center -> enter the logical drive path instead.

Many thanks!

[arron.craig]

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@jake.watson879Z4 wrote:
Update to this, I have been able to access some of the templates by going into the sharepoint/onedrive folder and selecting "Always keep on this device", however It's consumed an entire day with just downloads.

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Have you got the synced folder set to "Always keep on this device"  for all of the Inventor files? 

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@jake.watson879Z4 wrote:

Before you suggest using Vault, this system has worked for us for quite some time and it's cheaper.

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Is it really cheaper though? How many users do you have? Vault basic should be included in your subscription. Any cost to set up the Vault server is probably outweighed by the cost of mucking around with Sharepoint. 

We use SharePoint too (for general docs only now) and found that for office documents which it can manage access control for easily, it works ok (word, pdf, excel etc). Still a few issues with documents being split into multiple copies if another users machine isn't able to sync properly for some dumb reason and they open a spreadsheet that someone else has open. A bit of a head ache but it's manageable. 

AutoCAD files are worse if there is any sort of collaboration on a project and potential for multiple people to access and edit a .dwg, especially one with XREFS. Having to manually consolidate multiple .dwgs that sharepoint has split into copies is a big hassle. 

Add those issues to not only an Inventors project files but to the content center files, styles library and I presume your templates. That sounds like a horrible set-up. 

I think you are going to be constantly battling weird crap happening and it will only get worse as the # of users increase.