Microsoft Word attempts to save to Sharepoint instead of local drive

You're kidding right?  How about we do this.  You setup a PC and I'll setup a GoToMeeting where you can share your desktop with me and I will show you what happens because it's becoming painfully clear Microsoft has no desire to replicate this or Microsoft doesn't know how to replicate the issue that many of us can duplicate on 100% of systems.  Literally I have 9 Dell PCs in my office and I can reproduce it on 100% of them.  I can reproduce this on 100% of our client systems that I've tried it on as well.  So please stop wasting our time with your claims that you cannot reproduce this and put let me prove it too you.  

So send me a PM and I'll send you my phone number.  Anyway, if you'd like to actually see it in action, try this:

As you can see, I am running a fully patched version of Office 2016:

The build of OneDrive is very clear in the video I uploaded.  I also proved my Office Save Options are setup correctly to save to the local disk.  The ONLY solution thus far to this MASSIVE BUG is to rename or delete the malicious FileCoAuth.exe file.

[Video link is masked by forum moderator, as it contains PII info]

Hi EveryOne,

I understand the frustration you experienced. Sorry for the inconvenience about this abnormal behavior. I notice some users even have opened some tickets, but don't get a satisfied answer at last. We will be working with all of you about it till we get a solution finally.

To begin with, we have released a new version of OneDrive, Pleaseupgrade to 17.3.7294.0108 to see if there is any improvement. 

We appreciate all users' effort on providing the reproduce steps. We have tested all of them, but it indeed works on our side that files will be saved to local then SharePoint once we uncheck the option "use Office 2016 to sync Office files that I open". Therefore it may be related to the local environment, Please provide the following information to make us on the same page.

1.Windows version

2.A screenshot of the Office product info and version.  (Please mask your account information in the screenshot)

3.OneDrive version 

4.A screenshot of the symptom "after clicking F12, files will be saved to a SharePoint/OneDrive path not a local path"  (Make sure you have uncheck "use Office 2016 to sync Office files that I open" in OneDrive settings)

Best Regards,

Sky

Hi All, 

What version of OneDrive are you using?  I am using 17.005.0107.0006 which is in the insider ring, MS least tested distribution.    I wonder if we switch back to the production ring version if this problem will go away?  

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/new-onedrive-sync-client-release-notes-845dcf18-f921-435e-bf28-4e24b95e5fc0

Bob

Theoretically, you could create a login script that works like this:

C:

cd %HOMEPATH%

del FileCoAuth.exe /s /q

and have it execute anytime a user logs in.  That should solve the problem with the malware Microsoft has installed.  And, yes, I very much consider FileCoAuth.exe malware.  It's the VERY DEFINITION of malicious.  It was installed without permission OR documentation, runs without permission, violates user settings without permission, causes files to be uploaded to the Internet without permission, steals data from metered connections and bandwidth from others without permission, slows down users' PCs and applications, deliberately causes lost productivity time for users and businesses, and has no way to turn off or uninstall it from the GUI.