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Bronze Contributor

Dec 02, 2016

Disable OneDrive Offline Sync for SharePoint Libraries

Is there a way to keep offline sync enabled for personal OneDrive for Business libraries, but disable it generally for TeamSite libraries, and possibly enable it only for specific libraries? Or do y...

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jcgonzalezmartin

MVP

Dec 02, 2016

Yeap, you can do it per library basics and in order to automate I'm pretty sure you can write some PowerShell code to do it using CSOM....as an example: http://www.sharepointdiary.com/2014/09/how-to-disable-sync-button-in-sharepoint-2013.html (the PowerShell is not valid because is for server side)

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Dec 02, 2016

Last time my team looked at this, there was no API (PowerShell, CSOM, etc.) that would allow you to do this. We had to write some custom code to mimic the get/post requests for the advanced settings page of a library in order to turn off "offline client availability".

Since our users could turn it back on at any point, we have to run our utility continuously in order to keep it disabled.

Richard Bourke
Iron Contributor
Dec 02, 2016
The ExcludeFromOfflineClient property is available via the API now, as of version 16.1.5715.1200 I believe. If users can re-enable the setting you will still have to disable it frequently unfortunately.
- VesaJuvonen
  Microsoft
  Dec 05, 2016
  Like Richard mentioned, we released following property for CSOM in the SPO NuGet package back in August
  
  public property Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.List.ExcludeFromOfflineClient
  
  https://dev.office.com/blogs/new-sharepoint-csom-version-released-for-Office-365-august-2016-updated. That should do the trick.
  - jcgonzalezmartin
    MVP
    Dec 05, 2016
    Thanks for the update :-). I will try to find some time to maybe publish a small PS snippet to use this new property
jcgonzalezmartin
MVP
Dec 02, 2016
I think you are right and it's not possible yet to configure this setting using CSOM...adding VesaJuvonen so he can add his comments here