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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
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https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn938435.aspx
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- Yay ... Been waiting for this!
Don't put SharePoint Online 'Sharing' options in the ODB Admin center. This adds confusion and another area where Admins configure SharePoint related settings? Keep it scoped to ODB Only.
These files live in ODFB and, with our NGSC, will have the ability to be synched directly to and from your ODB client. Hence why we added this here. Some choices were made based on where the product is going, not just where it sits today.
Thanks for your feedback. I will share it with engineering.
It is only for Enterprise Plan or including SMB Plan?
- My understanding is that the new OneDrive Admin Center is going to be available for all Office 365 plans
Why would you use the consumer onedrive.com URL? Most enterprises block consumer services and this just makes our lives a pain because now we have to get this URL whitelisted. Why not integrate it into another business URL that Office 365 uses?
Hi Stephen,
I'd like to now if we can also include AAD domains in the restriction of sycning OneDrive. I have some customers that have remote users in different countries that have AAD joined (Intune Managed) devices. For which I would like to allow OneDrive sync.
Thanks much.
Gr,
RonaldI will have more to share on that next month. Stay tuned :)
Why is this on the onedrive.com domain? Our company currently blocks onedrive.com as it is a personal cloud storage site. OD4B is currently hosted on sharepoint.com. Why would Microsoft have an admin tool that is not even in the same domain as the app it is administering?
For many companies (especially smaller ones) OneDrive is a standalone product that is not connected to SharePoint on any level. SharePoint is our product that leads collaboration while OneDrive is the connective tissue between these products including SharePoint, Teams, Yammer, Delve and more.
As we continue to grow OneDrive features and functionality, having OneDrive's ability to be a true standalone product as well as be part of our productivity suite will become even more critical.
Means, this admin center will be available for standalone plan? So may companies licenced ProPlus can control OD with this feature? BTW I'm the one who concern this belong to onedrive.com...
Few things that are missing IMO:
1) Controls for company-shared links (or simply rename the "sharing" section to "External sharing")
2) Didnt see the RequireAcceptingAccountMatchInvitedAccount exposed, or the BCC for sharing options. Same goes for all other missing settings we have compared to Set-SPOTenant
3) Ability to set default type of sharing to read-only link (or Edit for those that prefer it)
4) More control (custom entry) for the link expiration setttings
5) IP range restrictions should be visible under Sharing as well, or at least make sure that people understand they dont only apply to mobile devices.
This is great. How would you rank these? In what order?
+1 for VasilMichev request: ability to set default type of sharing
Here are eleven OneDrive settings are not yet available in the OneDrive Admin Center (use the SharePoint Admin Center to manage these OneDrive settings)
•External users must accept sharing invites using the same account that the invites were sent to
•custom link expiration dates
•Configuring the OneDrive experience (New or Classic)
•Controlling whether all users or only specific users will get OneDrive sites created when a SharePoint license is assigned
•Notifications (external sharing, or mobile push)
•Show/Hide OneDrive Button
•Script Setting that controls whether or not the ‘Copy to SharePoint’ button will appear in OneDrive
•Ability to enable/disable IRM for OneDrive Globally
•Ability to enable/disable IRM for individual OneDrive Sites
•My Site Cleanup Access Delegation
•My Site Cleanup Secondary Owner
•My Site Secondary Admin
•The following OneDrive settings are still only available in PowerShell and have not yet been surfaced in the SharePoint or OneDrive web admin interfaces:
•Get-SPOTenant | ft ProvisionSharedWithEveryoneFolder
•Get-SPOTenant | ft ShowEveryoneExceptExternalUsersClaim
•Get-SPOTenant | ft ShowEveryoneClaim
•Get-SPOTenant | ft ShowAllUsersClaim
•Get-SPOTenantSyncClientRestriction | ft OptOutOfGrooveBlock
•Get-SPOTenantSyncClientRestriction | ft OptOutOfGrooveSoftBlock
•Get-SPOExternalUser
- Good start but a transfer ownership feature would be nice to easily transfer files for users leaving and organization. Posted this same comment on office365.uservoice.com
