SHAREPOINT DRIVES FOR WINDOWS
Keep the drive letters when your files move to SharePoint.
KONNEKT maps SharePoint Online, Teams and OneDrive as network drives in Windows Explorer, with drive letters and UNC paths, on Windows PCs, Citrix, Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365. Files stream from Microsoft 365 the moment someone opens them. Nothing syncs, and apps that expect F:\ keep working.
From €600 a year for 25 users, with every feature included.
A live simulation. Double-click a folder, right-click a file, or select the address bar.
Example data. Names, files and figures are fictional.
- In SharePoint
- Select a share or file to see its SharePoint address.
- As a network path
- Every share lives under \\OneDrive-contoso
- As a drive letter
- H: is the home drive, F: and P: are managed mappings.
What the move to SharePoint breaks.
Moving files to Microsoft 365 takes a weekend. The scripts, exports, habits and session hosts around them take years to change. KONNEKT gives them the paths they already expect.
Scripts and exports that write to a drive letter
The ERP export writes to
P:\Exportsevery night. After the migration there is no P: any more, and the job fails without anyone noticing.Map the library to P: with one policy line. The job keeps writing where it always has.
https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/Projects|Projects|P:Apps that only know “Save as”
Line-of-business software, PDF printers and older tools can save to a folder. They can't save to a SharePoint URL.
Every Save dialog sees KONNEKT drives as ordinary network locations, from Acrobat to the browser download prompt.
F:\Controlling\Report Q3.pdfBatch jobs and shortcuts built on UNC paths
Logon scripts, desktop shortcuts and scheduled tasks all point at
\\fs01\finance.KONNEKT registers as a Windows network provider, so UNC paths work everywhere, including
net usefor a single folder.net use R: "\\OneDrive-contoso\Finance\Reports"Sync clients on shared session hosts
Sync apps keep a local replica per user. On a Citrix or RDS host with 40 users, an opened file can exist 40 times across profiles.
KONNEKT streams files and keeps one small cache per user profile, with a ceiling you set by policy for the whole host.
CacheSize = 1000 MB CacheTTL = 30 minPeople hunting for the right library
Every team site has to be found in the browser and synced by hand, one library at a time, on every device.
Every site a user is a member of shows up by itself, grouped by account, and the list refreshes every hour.
jane.doe@contoso.com (contoso) - SharePoint (14)Libraries that outgrew sync
Microsoft recommends syncing no more than a total of 300,000 items across your cloud storage. Big departments reach that fast.
KONNEKT lists the folder you open and fetches the file you use, so libraries with more than 100,000 files stay usable.
Switching from Cloud Drive Mapper, ZeeDrive or a WebDAV drive.
KONNEKT takes over the drive letters of the tool you use now. The evaluation runs on your real tenant.
Windows treats KONNEKT drives like any network share.
KONNEKT installs a Windows network redirector, the same kind of driver that serves SMB shares. Apps don't need to know SharePoint exists. They open a path, and the KONNEKT engine in the user's session turns it into Microsoft Graph and SharePoint calls.
Office files on a KONNEKT drive open for co-authoring.
Office files on a KONNEKT drive don't open as local copies. KONNEKT hands Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote the file's SharePoint address, so they open it straight from Microsoft 365, with AutoSave, presence and version history.
- Word, Excel including binary and macro workbooks, PowerPoint and OneNote notebooks
- “New with Konnekt Coauthoring” turns an Office template into a new document in place
- Files with Microsoft Purview sensitivity labels are supported since 2.11; they are downloaded in full before they open
Session hosts without a sync replica per user.
On Remote Desktop, Citrix or Azure Virtual Desktop, every user gets their own KONNEKT engine, their own drives and a cache with a ceiling you set. Nothing is synced, so a full host stays a calm host.
- Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, VMware Horizon, Remote Desktop Services, Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365
- No dependency on .NET, Citrix versions, Microsoft 365 Apps or the OneDrive sync app
- Remediation scripts for per-user policies on multi-session hosts, FSLogix compatible
- One license covers up to 5 devices or VDI sessions per user
Size the cache for one host
CachePolicy = 1CacheSize = 1000 ; MB per sessionCacheTTL = 30 ; minutes
The documentation recommends 500 to 1,000 MB and a TTL of 10 to 60 minutes on session hosts. The default, automatic, 75 % of free disk plus the current cache, is meant for single-user devices.
Every setting is a policy.
Roll out one MSI, then steer KONNEKT with Group Policy or Intune like any other part of Windows. Users sign in once with their Windows account and find their drives waiting.
5 policies match
- SharePoint Sites (managed mappings)Pushes SharePoint sites or libraries to every user, each with an optional display name, drive letter, account and favorite pin.
SharepointSites - Connect drive (home drive)Maps the first account’s personal OneDrive to a drive letter, or switches the home drive off. Takes effect after a reboot.
ConnectDrivePolicy - Co-AuthoringDecides what happens when someone opens an Office file on a KONNEKT drive: co-author in the desktop app, open in the browser, or open exclusively.
EnableCoAuthoring - CacheHow long closed files stay in the local read cache and how big the cache may get. Changes apply after a restart.
CachePolicy - SharePoint Sites QueryThe KQL search that decides which sites auto-mapping picks up. Use it to include Teams channels or to allow and deny sites by title or path.
SharepointSiteQuery
Your files never touch our servers.
KONNEKT is a client, not a service. It talks to Microsoft 365 directly, as the signed-in user. There is no KONNEKT cloud that sees your files.
Data flow
- No backend
- File content and metadata travel only between the device and your SharePoint tenant. glueckkanja receives the license check, the optional update check and, with consent, crash reports.
- Delegated access only
- KONNEKT sees exactly what the signed-in user sees. No service account, no tenant-wide app permissions.
- Conditional Access
- Sign-in runs through Entra ID with your policies and MFA, and single sign-on uses the Windows account.
Identity and integrity
- Tokens stay on the device
- Refresh tokens are encrypted with Windows DPAPI in the user's own registry hive.
- Signed end to end
- Driver, MSI and updates are code-signed, and the updater installs only packages signed by glueckkanja.
- ISO 27001
- KONNEKT is ISO 27001 certified.
Where KONNEKT runs.
Windows 11 and Windows 10 LTSC
Every Windows release in Microsoft mainstream support. Installers for x64, x86 and ARM64; on ARM64, x64 apps reach KONNEKT drives too.
Windows Server 2022 and 2025
Remote Desktop Services and multi-session hosts, with one engine per user session.
Citrix, AVD, Windows 365
Hypervisor VDI and multi-session, VMware Horizon included. Microsoft recommends syncing no more than a total of 300,000 items across your cloud storage. KONNEKT streams instead of syncing, so libraries with more than 100,000 files stay usable.
- Private preview
Mac, iPhone and iPad
KONNEKT in the Finder sidebar and the Files app. Currently in private preview for selected customers.
How KONNEKT differs from the OneDrive sync app.
KONNEKT runs side by side with the sync app or replaces it, depending on who needs what. Where they differ is where file-server habits live.
10 years in production.
KONNEKT shipped its first build in October 2016. 99 releases later, the changelog records every fix and every feature since.
Questions that come up first.
Anything missing? The documentation at docs.konnekt.io goes deep.
01Can I map a SharePoint library as a network drive with a drive letter?
Yes. One managed mapping in Group Policy or Intune gives a SharePoint library its drive letter. The library also has a UNC path, and every other site the user is a member of shows up by itself.
02Where are our files stored?
In SharePoint Online and OneDrive, exactly where they are today. KONNEKT keeps a temporary cache of opened files on the device and has no servers of its own that see your content.
03Does it work with Conditional Access and MFA?
Yes. Sign-in runs through Entra ID, so your Conditional Access policies and MFA apply. On Entra-joined devices KONNEKT signs in with the Windows account, including Windows Hello for Business.
04Can people work offline?
Partly. KONNEKT is built for online work: recently used files stay in the cache for the TTL you set, files in a personal OneDrive can be marked “Offline available”, and the upload queue survives restarts.
05What about very large files?
KONNEKT is optimized for files up to 10 to 100 MB. By default, files above 512 MB open read-only and files above 1 GB don't open; both limits are policies. Shared databases, CAD and video belong elsewhere.
06How do we switch from Cloud Drive Mapper or ZeeDrive?
Recreate your drive mappings as managed mappings in Group Policy or Intune, with the same letters as before. A pilot group works with KONNEKT while everyone else keeps the old tool, and when the pilot works, you retire it group by group. The comparison page lists the four steps of the switch.
See your own SharePoint as a drive.
Try KONNEKT on your tenant with your own libraries, every feature included.
