Direct: SharePoint site advanced settings

Include subsites

When you enable this toggle, the mapped drive will also display document libraries of your SharePoint site’s subsites. Enabling this toggle will also allow you to specify how the mapped drive manages its folder structure.

Folder structure type

Whenever CDM mounts a Direct SharePoint site drive or refreshes its contents, it communicates with the SharePoint API for the site and subsites under the root. Depending on the complexity of your SharePoint folder structure, this can lead to Microsoft 365 throttling requests from CDM. The Folder structure type setting helps optimize the drive’s enumeration pattern by allowing you to specify how it handles its folder structure. By default, this setting preserves the site or subsite hierarchy. The following example shows the difference between the two Folder structure type options:

Flat

SharePointSite 1\SharePointDocLib 1
SharePointSite 1\SharePointDocLib 2
Subsite 1\SharePointDocLib 1
...
Subsite N\SharePointDocLib N

Hierarchy

SharePointSite 1\SharePointDocLib 1
SharePointSite 1\SharePointDocLib 2
SharePointSite 1\Subsite 1\SharePointDocLib 1
...
SharePointSite 1\Subsite N\SharePointDocLib N

Cache refresh frequency

CDM caches a list of the specific SharePoint site, subsites, document libraries, and folders within document libraries mapped to a Direct: SharePoint site drive. It only does this to avoid overburdening Microsoft services, which can adversely impact the performance of your Microsoft 365 tenancy. By default, CDM refreshes this list at an average of 3 hours, meaning that changes to the SharePoint site, subsites, document libraries, and folders within document libraries will not reflect in your Direct: SharePoint site drive in real time. For more information about the Cache refresh frequency setting and CDM’s performance at startup, see User dispersion.

Changes to the drive’s settings are applied when you restart CDM.

Related topics:

Direct: SharePoint site