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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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Sorry for my hijack this thread, as i didn't find a way to post a new question. I really have some questions needed to be answered:
1.What kind of encryption using in ODFB? Is it Non-Proprietary Encryption?
2.What kind of Challenge/Response Protocols are using my ODFB
3.Is it possible to validate ODFB Security Monitoring ?
4.Is it possible to Validate/monitor ODFB Performance ?Could someone give me a direct answer including some materials.
Thanks in advance
Jason
Have a look on this article: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn905447(v=office.15).aspx
Hi Zoltan,
Much appreciated that you can reply it to me!!!
Since i'm new to SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business, also i'm not an English speaker, I need some one can answer my question directly. I find that article before, but i can't figure it out with that article.
Thanks for your help.
Jason
I've ticked both the, "Allow syncing only on PCs joined to specific domains," and "Block syncing of specific file types." I've added our domain's guid, and I've added a truck load of extensions to the file type list. Even with these setting active, I am able to sync all the file types that are supposedly blocked to a personal non-domain joined desktop without issue. Is the admin center preview, simply a preview of what we will be able to do in the future, or it is supposed to be actively working at the moment?
I've double checked that I'm indead set as a, First Release Customer.
Thanks,
DavidHi David - meanwhile to get a headstart in debugging this issue - could you run this get-spotenantsyncclientrestriction cmdlet in your SharePoint Online Management shell? (https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn917453.aspx53.aspx)
This will let us know if the policy is configured on the service.
- StephenRice
Microsoft
Hi DAVID WILLIAMS,
All of the admin settings that you can currently see are live in the product today so they should be working. There may be a slight time delay between when you set the policy and when it takes effect. I'll ping the owner of these features to get some additional info as well. Thanks!
Stephen Rice
OneDrive Program Manager II
In addition I'm curious about the sharing policy settings. Do these setting only hit Sharepoint or One Drive, or will this also hit O365 Modern Groups and guest access. i.e. If I set the policy to 90 days, will an external guest user lost access to the group they were invited, the group SP site, and Group file repository, after 90 days?
Thanks
David
Hello - Quick question on some of the functionality:
- What does the option to "Let users install the sync client from the OneDrive website" actually do? How could you really block that?
- For Device Access - Do the settings in the OneDrive Admin Center automatically create the appropriate Conditional Access policies in Azure AD?
- If I want to block ALL mobile devices from accessing OneDrive, could I just create a policy in which no devices are considered compliant?
Thanks!
You could do it through the Admin Center policy (which envokes a GPO) in AD or you could do it through AppLocker as a local or AD policy.
Ok -- what about the setting on the sync page that "allow users install the sync client"? What does that actually do?
Hello, When I type htps://admin.onedrive.com, it is showing me SharePoint admin center instead of OneDrive admin center. Please advise If I am missing anything.
Avian
- StephenRice
Avian 1, can you confirm that your tenant is part of the first release group? The OneDrive admin center preview is only available to first release tenants right now with a more broad release coming later. Thanks!
Stephen Rice
OneDrive Program Manager II
Nice features! This will help for sure.
Great news !!! Much awaiting..
Stephen Rose wrote: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
What happened to the feature to allow limiting of external sharing by AAD group? This was part of the original blog post announcing the new admin centre and one that we intended to rely on for our implementation of external sharing. See 'Who can share with external users' section screen-grabbed below from original Microsoft blog https://blogs.office.com/2016/09/26/sharepoint-online-sync-preview-headlines-ignite-announcements-for-onedrive/.
- StephenRice
Hi Neil McCafferty,
We discovered a last minute bug in that feature which required us to pull the feature from the ODB Admin preview. You should begin seeing that feature later this month. Thanks!
Stephen Rice
OneDrive Program Manager II
- Will we still be able to admin from the sharepoint.com site like we do today or will it be completely transitioned to onedrive.com?
SharePoint will still be admin'ed through the SP interface
- Okay, great! Thank you.
Are we going to be able to manage individual Onedrive accounts? Like on a per-user basis?
This is great and much easier than managing the previous way. I really like the Device access.
Was testing a block on file types but it doesn't seem to be working. Is there a known delay or issue with Sync > Block syncing of specific file types?
Tested with an .olm file since we would like to block all Outlook archive file types (PST and OLM) but I was still able to drop the .olm file into the local OneDrive sync folder and it popped up in my OneDrive online shortly after (several times).
Block .olm file test
So I let it sit for a few hours and it looks like the first extension (olm) I tried to block is actually being blocked now. Is there some duration of replication needed in the O365 tenant that results in this delay between configuration and observation?
Block by file extension test (pst and olm)
