As you know there are quite few unsupported characters in file or folder names for synching with OneDrive for Business (see https://support.office.com/en-us/article/invalid-file-names-and-file-types-in-onedrive-onedrive-for-business-and-sharepoint-64883a5d-228e-48f5-b3d2-eb39e07630fa)
This is often a major problem with end-users.
Well, the good news is Microsoft is pushing a OneDrive update to automatically help with these unsupported/invalid characters by renaming it for you.
This new option will appear as soon as a file or folder name match the one of following:
- Names beginning or ending with a space
- Names beginning or ending with a period
- Names containing unsupported Unicode code points
- Names with surrogate pair issues
That said, not all unsupported context will be supported (yet?) like if the name contains either of the following characters:
” * : < > ? / \ |
The rollout is already started and is planned to be completed by end of April.