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Announcement: New OneDrive Admin Center Preview
Over the past year, OneDrive has evolved at a rapid pace introducing new features for end users and IT, across sync, web, and mobile. As the number of users and usage continues to grow, our customers have asked for an easier way to administer their company OneDrive settings and policies. Today, we’re excited to announce the rollout of the OneDrive admin center preview to First Release customers and we want to hear your feedback.
Once deployed to your tenant, all tenant and SharePoint admins will have permissions to access the OneDrive admin center preview at https://admin.onedrive.com.
Key features by section include:
- Home: This is the dashboard for the admin center and will soon show recent Office 365 Message Center posts and usage reporting related to OneDrive for Business.
- Sharing: This section helps admins gain control over how and with whom your users are sharing information. This includes controlling the use of external sharing and anonymous links, as well as limiting which external domains users can share with.
- Sync: Admins can block syncing of specific file types and deny syncing to non-domain joined PCs.
- Storage: This section allows admins to easily set default storage limits and document retention durations.
- Device Access: This gives admins control over how and from where a user can access their files. This includes allow/deny access from personal devices or specific networks as well as rich Mobile Application Management Intune policies for iOS and Android.
- Compliance: Admins can find quick links to the Office 365 Security and Compliance Center for key scenarios like auditing, data loss prevention, retention, and eDiscovery.
Please have a look at the preview and provide us your feedback and comments below. Our plan is to begin the generally available rollout later next month and subsequently add a link from the Office 365 admin center.
Thank you!
Stephen Rose
Director, OneDrive Product Marketing
- Hi Cary - here is TechNet article on how to enumerate domain guids.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn938435.aspx
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Looks great, thank you. Is there an upper limit on the document retention period in days under the Storage section?
Also, if a SPO site collection has already been created with external sharing DISABLED in the SPO Admin Center, is that originsl setting honored, or does the default under the new Sharing section for SharePoint sites override the previous value for external sharing?
Tim
For the 'Days to retain files in OneDrive after a user account is marked for deletion' setting defaulting to 30 days, I believe it can be increased all the way up to 3650 days.
Souce https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/kb/3042522 & https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fp161390.aspx - (OrphanedPersonalSitesRetentionPeriod)
- I just set mine to 3650, so you are correct
When I go in to limit which domains can sync it asks "Enter each domain as a GUID on a new line."
Where am I to find my domain's GUID?
Run get-addomain abd it will return the domain guid
To be complete
Just copy paste this in powershell on your Domain controller
$domains = (Get-ADForest).Domains; foreach($d in $domains) {Get-ADDomain -Identity $d | Select ObjectGuid}Great feature set in this admin portal.
- Hi Cary - here is TechNet article on how to enumerate domain guids.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn938435.aspxI followed the PS commands to get my local domain GUID, after which I added it to the "allow syncing to specific domains" in the OD4B Sync admin area, but it will not retain the settings even after clicking Save.
Tried several times, even had another Adminstrator try, but no luck. Everything looks correct, but when I go back and check, there is nothing listed. It simply will not save the domain GUID information. It doesnt even give an error message.
Am I doing something wrong?
Is anyone else having this same issue?
- Stephen Rose I think it's worth sharing this on Office Blogs as it's worth shouting out! I'd like to see this as a dedicated tile in the app launcher too so I can find it easily. Well done, super useful!
Agreed. We will soon but we wanted to make sure we got this to you folks as quickly as possible first :)
- IMHO this should appear in the App Launcher in the same way we don't have in the App Launcher tiles for EXO, SPO, S4B Admin, Azure AD, etc
- This is pretty great, bravo!
Thanks Brent! We are super excited to bring this to market.
- Thanks for this :-)...I have already access to the new ODB Admin Center, but the shortcut is not shown yet in the Office 365 admin portal.
Thanks Juan. It may take a day or so. If it's doesn't pop up by Sunday, let me know.
