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Disable all sharing
Hi all, Has anyone been successful in disabling all sharing for OD4B? The goal is to drive users into other collaborative tools such as SPO or Groups for shared content. I'm wondering if there is a...
Haven't had time to test a possible solution but this is an interesting problem...
As the onedrive is essentially a SharePoint site.. if you can make a permission level that has everything selected but the "Change Permissions" option, then remove the user from the SCA group and add them to a new sp group using that non-change permissions option. Theoretically they should be able to use their onedrive for themselves but not let in anyone else. Of course...not sure how this would help when a user can just email a copy of the file to someone or other method of file transfer..but it would make it more of pain than sharing which the system is setup to do so easily...if above is possible. You can CSOM script that out and run it on all onedrives. My apologies in advance if this idea isn't feasible..just saw this post and it got me thinking. Hope it helps!
As the onedrive is essentially a SharePoint site.. if you can make a permission level that has everything selected but the "Change Permissions" option, then remove the user from the SCA group and add them to a new sp group using that non-change permissions option. Theoretically they should be able to use their onedrive for themselves but not let in anyone else. Of course...not sure how this would help when a user can just email a copy of the file to someone or other method of file transfer..but it would make it more of pain than sharing which the system is setup to do so easily...if above is possible. You can CSOM script that out and run it on all onedrives. My apologies in advance if this idea isn't feasible..just saw this post and it got me thinking. Hope it helps!
Hi Dennis.
We have already discussed in the past the option to remove the ODfB user from the SCA list.
Unfortunately, it looks like this option has several contraindications and hence is not feasible.
I have never tried it by myself, but jcgonzalezmartin could explain more...
- Yeap, while it's true you can potentially change default security model in ODFB, I don't recommend it since you simply could break the way ODFB is designed to share information in a secure way....just my 2 cents
- Good point...seems there is always unexpectedly bad fallout with work around ideas in 365. Has anyone posted this request to UserVoice yet? I'd vote on it...that would be very handy for an admin to be able to turn off sharing for certain or all users onedrives. Not every business wants the easy exfil possibility for staff personal drive space even though it is logged!
