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Announcement: New OneDrive Admin Center Preview

Microsoft

Over the past year, OneDrive has evolved at a rapid pace introducing new features for end users and IT, across sync, web, and mobile. As the number of users and usage continues to grow, our customers have asked for an easier way to administer their company OneDrive settings and policies. Today, we’re excited to announce the rollout of the OneDrive admin center preview to First Release customers and we want to hear your feedback.

 

Once deployed to your tenant, all tenant and SharePoint admins will have permissions to access the OneDrive admin center preview at https://admin.onedrive.com.

 

Key features by section include:

  1. Home: This is the dashboard for the admin center and will soon show recent Office 365 Message Center posts and usage reporting related to OneDrive for Business.
  2. Sharing: This section helps admins gain control over how and with whom your users are sharing information. This includes controlling the use of external sharing and anonymous links, as well as limiting which external domains users can share with.
  3. Sync: Admins can block syncing of specific file types and deny syncing to non-domain joined PCs.
  4. Storage: This section allows admins to easily set default storage limits and document retention durations.
  5. Device Access: This gives admins control over how and from where a user can access their files. This includes allow/deny access from personal devices or specific networks as well as rich Mobile Application Management Intune policies for iOS and Android.
  6. Compliance: Admins can find quick links to the Office 365 Security and Compliance Center for key scenarios like auditing, data loss prevention, retention, and eDiscovery.

Please have a look at the preview and provide us your feedback and comments below. Our plan is to begin the generally available rollout later next month and subsequently add a link from the Office 365 admin center.

 

Thank you!

 

Stephen Rose

Director, OneDrive Product Marketing

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Hi, I would like to see all topics regarding OD4B in that Portal, do not keep anything in the SharePoint section. Regards, Hermann
Yay ... Been waiting for this!

Was testing a block on file types but it doesn't seem to be working.  Is there a known delay or issue with Sync > Block syncing of specific file types?

 

Tested with an .olm file since we would like to block all Outlook archive file types (PST and OLM) but I was still able to drop the .olm file into the local OneDrive sync folder and it popped up in my OneDrive online shortly after (several times).

 

Block .olm file testBlock .olm file test

So I let it sit for a few hours and it looks like the first extension (olm) I tried to block is actually being blocked now.  Is there some duration of replication needed in the O365 tenant that results in this delay between configuration and observation?

 

Block by file extension test (pst and olm)Block by file extension test (pst and olm)

This is great and much easier than managing the previous way.  I really like the Device access.

Are we going to be able to manage individual Onedrive accounts? Like on a per-user basis?

Means, this admin center will be available for standalone plan? So may companies licenced ProPlus can control OD with this feature? BTW I'm the one who concern this belong to onedrive.com...

This answer completely misses the point. onedrive.com is the consumer OneDrive URL and as an Enterprise, we want to keep it blocked. Your solution is to open up that risk, but mitigate it by adding more administration overhead to groups that are normally already stretched pretty thin? I understand that MS wants to separate OneDrive from SharePoint. But the solution isn't to then integrate it with the consumer product. It would be to carve out it's own space such as onedrivefb.com or something that we can whitelist that doesn't expose us to other issues. Our decision to go with OneDrive was at least in part predicated on it being it's own product separate from the consumer version.
Will we still be able to admin from the sharepoint.com site like we do today or will it be completely transitioned to onedrive.com?

SharePoint will still be admin'ed through the SP interface

Okay, great! Thank you.

Great news !!! Much awaiting..


@Stephen Rose wrote:

Over the past year, OneDrive has evolved at a rapid pace introducing new features for end users and IT, across sync, web, and mobile. As the number of users and usage continues to grow, our customers have asked for an easier way to administer their company OneDrive settings and policies. Today, we’re excited to announce the rollout of the OneDrive admin center preview to First Release customers and we want to hear your feedback.

 

Once deployed to your tenant, all tenant and SharePoint admins will have permissions to access the OneDrive admin center preview at https://admin.onedrive.com.

 

Key features by section include:

  1. Home: This is the dashboard for the admin center and will soon show recent Office 365 Message Center posts and usage reporting related to OneDrive for Business.
  2. Sharing: This section helps admins gain control over how and with whom your users are sharing information. This includes controlling the use of external sharing and anonymous links, as well as limiting which external domains users can share with.
  3. Sync: Admins can block syncing of specific file types and deny syncing to non-domain joined PCs.
  4. Storage: This section allows admins to easily set default storage limits and document retention durations.
  5. Device Access: This gives admins control over how and from where a user can access their files. This includes allow/deny access from personal devices or specific networks as well as rich Mobile Application Management Intune policies for iOS and Android.
  6. Compliance: Admins can find quick links to the Office 365 Security and Compliance Center for key scenarios like auditing, data loss prevention, retention, and eDiscovery.

Please have a look at the preview and provide us your feedback and comments below. Our plan is to begin the generally available rollout later next month and subsequently add a link from the Office 365 admin center.

 

Thank you!

 

Stephen Rose

Director, OneDrive Product Marketing


 

What happened to the feature to allow limiting of external sharing by AAD group? This was part of the original blog post announcing the new admin centre and one that we intended to rely on for our implementation of external sharing. See 'Who can share with external users' section screen-grabbed below from original Microsoft blog https://blogs.office.com/2016/09/26/sharepoint-online-sync-preview-headlines-ignite-announcements-fo....sharepoint-online-sync-preview-09

Hi @Neil McCafferty,

 

We discovered a last minute bug in that feature which required us to pull the feature from the ODB Admin preview. You should begin seeing that feature later this month. Thanks!

 

Stephen Rice

OneDrive Program Manager II

Nice features! This will help for sure.

Hello, When I type htps://admin.onedrive.com, it is showing me SharePoint admin center instead of OneDrive admin center. Please advise If I am missing anything.

 

Avian

Stephen - Really appreciate your reply here. Great news and better than I expected too! Was worried feature had been dropped. This will make a significant difference for us.

@Avian 1, can you confirm that your tenant is part of the first release group? The OneDrive admin center preview is only available to first release tenants right now with a more broad release coming later. Thanks!

 

Stephen Rice

OneDrive Program Manager II

@Neil McCafferty,

 

No problem, sorry for the confusion here! Once the feature comes out, I'd love to hear your feedback and how it's working for you!

 

Stephen Rice

OneDrive Program Manager II

Hello - Quick question on some of the functionality:

  • What does the option to "Let users install the sync client from the OneDrive website" actually do? How could you really block that?
  • For Device Access - Do the settings in the OneDrive Admin Center automatically create the appropriate Conditional Access policies in Azure AD?
  • If I want to block ALL mobile devices from accessing OneDrive, could I just create a policy in which no devices are considered compliant?

Thanks!