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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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StephenRice
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Jan 24, 2022

Hi Gabrielhuisg,

 

Thanks for the video! Based on that, it looks like you are in the OneDrive consumer environment which does not currently support Block Download. This is definitely something we'll keep in mind for future but nothing to share about consumer support at this time. Thanks!


Stephen Rice

Senior Product Manager, OneDrive

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    Gabrielhuisg
    Copper Contributor
    Jan 24, 2022
    May I know who we could reach out to for this feature? Because GoogleDrive has been offering “block download” feature since the dawn of days. We need to compete with competitions out there who are offering Cloud Drive for Free and comes with “Block Download” feature. OneDrive is considered the major player in this field and definitely will consider more file sharing security features.

    I believe it will be pretty basic and straight forward to the team to implement this feature. It’s probably whether they want to implement it or not only.

    Could I have your help to raise this feature for them to implement?

    Thanks so much for your help
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    StephenRice
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    Jan 24, 2022
    Unfortunately not, sorry! This feature is only available for enterprise customers at this time (also generally called Microsoft 365 though I don't recall the nuanced name differences). Apologies for the confusion!

    Stephen Rice
    Senior Product Manager, OneDrive
  • Gabrielhuisg's avatar
    Gabrielhuisg
    Copper Contributor
    Jan 24, 2022
    Hi
    I always have been thinking that it is consumer OneDrive that we were referring. I subscribed the Microsoft Office 355 package. Is that considered as well?

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