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Script to mass disable sync for Office 365 Groups
A customer of mine wants to disable sync for all Groups doclibs. AFAIK there is not a global setting for this. I know that it is possible to do it manually for every single doclib in the advanced l...
I am sorry, but I do not know of any way to disable the ability for users to synchronize a document library via PowerShell...
Thank you, Tony.
- You should be able to "temporary" hide the "sync" action in the Groups Library using CSOM (Client Side Object Model) in a PowerShell script...and I say "should" because in the past I have found some weird problems when using CSOM with Groups sites...but this should not be the case anymore since a Group site is a modern site. By the way, I have a script that hides the sync action for a document library in SPO using CSOM: https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/How-to-enabledisable-sync-8ad53996?redir=0 (Bear in mind you will need to use at least August 2016 version of CSOM...I recommend you to use the once released by Microsoft yesterday (https://jcgonzalezmartin.wordpress.com/2017/01/28/office-365-january-version-of-spo-csom-just-released/)....and to get the CSOM assemblies via NuGet using PowerShell just follow this post: https://jcgonzalezmartin.wordpress.com/2017/01/09/tips-tricks-how-to-install-a-nuget-package-without-visual-studio-installed/
Finally, you will need to buy the code to get the all the Groups sites in the tenant. You can use this post as a starting point : http://www.andrewjbillings.com/enumerating-sharepoint-sites-for-office-365-groups-with-powershell/- I've got something similar to this running (iterating content in Groups)
I've also upgrade to the latest CSOM assemblies, but I don't see the parameter exposed in the Group sites/libraries (i think it is ExcludeFromOfflineClient).
