Save your Outlook Signatures into OneDrive and never lose them again

If you are like me, that has been setting up careful every single signature on your Outlook Desktop App, and you are willing to have a centralized manner to have them all on a folder on your Onedrive/Dropbox/Box or any other cloud service, this article is for you.

My name is Jose Ortega, and I’m a Microsoft Certified Solution Expert on Messaging and Windows Server; also I have been working for Microsoft Gold Partners for about 12 years. I used to post my script on Technet until MS decided to shut it down, now I moved to Medium. Thank you in advance for all the support, donations, and comments you’ve been left for me to keep doing this, a piece of my heart will be on you :).

Now let’s go to the task; all the signatures are saved in a special folder on the AppData directory on your profile. This is there for every single profile that you have on your computer. So, for example, if my username is “joseo” then the full path would be:

C:\Users\joseo\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Signatures

We need to change that Signature folder for the one we want to have on the Onedrive Directory, something similar to what I’ve done in the article How to synchronize folders from different drives in the Onedrive article.

So we copy the Signature files within a Folder on Onedrive. Let’s suppose that it is on the path: “D:\Cloud\Onedrive\Signatures.” And Finally, we need to open up CMD and run the following two lines:

rmdir /Q /S %appdata%\Microsoft\Signatures
mklink /J "%appdata%\Microsoft\Signatures" "D:\Cloud\OneDrive\Signatures"

Do you still have any doubts? No problem, I’ve created a video on Spanish and English doing this process:

By doing this, we’re redirecting the Signatures on Appdata\Microsoft Folder into the Onedrive one, and you’ll never need to add the signatures again. You can save those two (2) lines within a text file and save it as “.bat,” so you need to double click on it on every computer you have.

Wanna know more about this? please visit my reading: https://j0rt3g4.medium.com/how-to-synchronize-folders-from-different-drives-on-onedrive-f400395f203c

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