How to Use SharePoint Online’s New Block Download Policy

[Tony Redmond]

The new SharePoint block download policy applies at the site level to stop users downloading files, even to work with them using the Office desktop apps. It also stops people printing and synchronizing files. In this article, we explain how to apply the policy with PowerShell, including how to apply the SharePoint block download policy to all sites assigned a certain sensitivity label.

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[#2]

Will there be an option to apply this to specific libraries or exclude certain libraries from this rule? I have a site where we want most of the files to not be able to download except for a Forms library where users need to be able to download the form templates.

[#3]

It's a site-specific restriction so it cannot be imposed at the granular level of a library.