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Dominic Horne
Brass Contributor
Feb 16, 2018

How to disable desktop sync for all SharePoint sites ?

We would like to hide the desktop sync for all SharePoint sites by default and give users the opportunity to only enable this for required document libraries in a ShatePoint site. Are there UI settings to hide this for all SharePoint sites while having this turned on for OneDrive ?
  • If you mean to hide the sync option in document libraries, this is something you can configure on per-document library:
    Settings -> Document Library Settings -> Advanced Settings -> Allow items from this document library to be downloaded to offline clients? -> No

    You could automate this setting using some PowerShell
    • Dominic Horne's avatar
      Dominic Horne
      Brass Contributor
      Is ther an alternate way other than scripts to update existing and newly created sites?
    • Dominic Horne's avatar
      Dominic Horne
      Brass Contributor
      This setting can be configured at site level as well. This means that we would need to write a power shell script that disables this for all SP sites and configure a job that does this for all newly created sites.
      • jcgonzalezmartin's avatar
        jcgonzalezmartin
        MVP
        Are you asking or just stating :-)? I'm not sure what you mean by at the site level...can you elaborate?

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