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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
    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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StephenRice
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Feb 19, 2021

Hi all,

 

The Block Download option will only apply or be available for Teams Meeting Recordings at this time. Making this option available for more video file types is absolutely on our backlog but we don't have a timeframe to offer just yet. Thanks!


Stephen Rice

Senior Program Manager, OneDrive

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Stephan_Leistra
Brass Contributor
Mar 04, 2021
The roadmap item has been changed from "rolling out" to "In development" and will only be released in April CY2021... What happened? We desperately need this option and I know a lot of European universities are also struggling with this issue due to privacy legislation.
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    shavit
    Copper Contributor
    Mar 04, 2021
    exactly!

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