Drive File Stream and Shared Folders

In June 2019 we are piloting GFS for Shared Drives (formerly Team Drives) for the Communications share, as requested by Erin and Peter. Here's what I did:

SET UP THE SHARED DRIVE

1. Logged in to Chrome as networkadmin and went to Drive -> Shared Drives, right-clicked, "New shared drive..." and named it Communications:

2. Added members Erin and Peter with role Content Manager:

INSTALL GOOGLE FILE STREAM (WINDOWS)

Get the installer from here: https://support.google.com/a/answer/7491144?hl=en and do the needful

Erin (Windows) got this prompt after a few minutes:

We checked the "Don't ask again" box and clicked "Sync with Drive File Stream." That way, Backup and Sync still does the Backup piece (for Desktop/Documents in case the laptop dies), but the user's own Drive data is still accessible through File Explorer via GFS and its more-efficient storage/caching behavior.

To set this manually, open Backup and Sync preferences -> Google Drive and uncheck the "sync" checkbox. Then GFS will take over.

INSTALL GOOGLE FILE STREAM (MAC)

On Mojave, all the security/privacy crap interferes. Get the installer from here: https://support.google.com/a/answer/7491144?hl=en and run it. If you get this:

Or this:

Then go to System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> General and click Allow. Authenticate as admin first (unlock padlock) if need be.

Then, go to the menu bar icon and select Sign In:

It should say "loading your files." They are visible in the Finder via the desktop icon, or in the sidebar:

It walks and quacks like a regular file share but does intelligent caching etc. so you don't have to carry a mirror of the entire share on your hard drive.

Peter (Mac) got this prompt at some point:

We hit "Continue" and got this:

Go to System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Privacy tab, unlock the padlock with the local admin password, select Accessibility, and check the box for "Google Drive File Stream.app":

On a Chromebook, access via Drive -> Shared Drives web interface like any other Drive stuff.