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JuliaWu
Feb 06, 2020Former Employee
Block File Sharing in Teams
Is it possible to block file-sharing in Teams?
Just enable chat and calls service in Teams.
Because I tried to block it from the licensing view (disable Sharepoint online service) but it did ...
- Feb 06, 2020Hi,
As referred to in the previous link you can control external sharing on SharePoint and OneDrive at a tenant level or at a site level (with permissions), or you can apply Data Loss Prevention policies on content within SharePoint/OneDrive from the Office 365 Security and Compliance Centre
Here are the links
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/turn-external-sharing-on-or-off
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/data-loss-prevention-policies
Best, Chris
LinusCansby
Feb 06, 2020MVP
No, I don't think that is possible. If you disable OneDrive for users Teams will use OneDrive for file sharing in chats anyway. If you disable Sharepoint for users, Teams will use Sharepoint anyway for sharing in Channels.
If you disable Team creation for users and don't create any Teams and don't create any Teams for them, they won't be able to create Teams. And if you disable Chat they won't be able to chat and share files there. But then I don't see why you want to use Teams.
Why do you want to stop users from collaborating with files?