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DiVojich
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Apr 09, 2020
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Option "block download" not showing

Hi all, I have around 10 users in 1 office who don't have the option "BLOCK DOWNLOAD" on their ODB apps. They only see this option for Office files (Word, Excel, etc...) for non-office files such a...
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  • StephenRice's avatar
    StephenRice
    Apr 13, 2020

    I don't have an article handy but can confirm that we currently only support Block Download for Office files.

     

    That being said, we are working on Block Download for other file types (as announced in the Sharing talk at Ignite last year) and you should keep an eye on Message Center for more news on that soon 🙂

     

    Thanks!


    Stephen Rice

    Senior Program Manager, OneDrive

     

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trading_wizz
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Dec 27, 2020

StephenRice 

 

Hi. Is there any update on introducing this blocking feature? I understood that it would be implemented by now.

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Lars365
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Dec 29, 2020

Hi trading_wizz

In the Microsoft Roadmap it says February 2021 for blocking download of Teams meeting recordings for users with view-only permissions:
https://www.microsoft.com/de-de/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=Microsoft%20Stream&searchterms=block%2Cdownload

This is only available with the https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/stream/streamnew/new-stream based on OneDrive and SharePoint.

Warm regards and happy new year!
Lars

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    johnberry
    Copper Contributor
    Feb 17, 2021

    I wondered the same. Tagging StephenRice.

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    Stephan_Leistra
    Brass Contributor
    Feb 03, 2021
    The Microsoft Roadmap states that this month the feature will be released to block Team-meeting recording downloads. Any news on when exactly? And does this apply only for Team-meeting recordings or all MP4 files?
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    StephenRice
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    Jan 04, 2021

    Hi all,

     

    Just popping in to confirm that Lars365 is correct here. The previous roadmap post was more broad than originally intended and was replaced with the new item that is correctly scoped. The team is still looking to make Block Download available more broadly for other video file types but we don't have a timeline we can offer just yet. Thanks!

     

    Stephen Rice

    Senior Program Manager, OneDrive

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