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Stephen Rose
Microsoft
MicrosoftAnnouncement: New OneDrive Admin Center Preview
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:
- 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.
- 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.
- Sync: Admins can block syncing of specific file types and deny syncing to non-domain joined PCs.
- Storage: This section allows admins to easily set default storage limits and document retention durations.
- 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.
- 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
- Hi Cary - here is TechNet article on how to enumerate domain guids.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn938435.aspx
For anyone who, like me, has users who easily get confused by the different OneDrive "experiences", I put together this infographic to help them. Feel free to use the OneDrive Family Tree yourself as long as you retain credit. :)
OneDrive Family Tree, for understanding what all the different OD experiences are
Will there be a option available in the (near) future to manage a OneDrive of a office group, for instance like how we manage OneDrive as from now (thru sharepoint profiles or admin.onedrive.com)?
- StephenRice
For clarification, are you talking about manging the team site/document library that is associated with an Office 365 Group? Thanks!
Stephen Rice
OneDrive Program Manager II
- Yes thats correct. The document storage location of an office Group
- That's great news. Glad to see this being implemented. :)
- So I guess this should be rolled out to everyone by now. Unless I'm jsut not enderstanding the feature, it sounds like you should be able to add which external domains a user is able to share files with, but I don't see that. Just share with external users or not. Am I missing some other setting. For example I don't want to allow external sharing except for domain xyz.com and abc.com, but I don't see how to do that.
- StephenRice
Hi Bruce Hopkins,
If you go to the OneDrive admin console and go to the sharing tab, you should see a section called "limit external sharing by domain". If you check that box, you can click "add domains" and then choose domains to add to an allow list or a deny list. Hope that helps!
Stephen Rice
OneDrive Program Manager II
Thanks Stephen, I guess I need to put my glasses on. So for clarity. I select allow sharing from new and existing external users in the slider for OneDrive and SharePoint and only the external user with a domain matching what is in the all domains will be able to access, correct?
Hello - I would like to know if there is going to be also new user role in Office 365 for ODB Admins. It would help a lot to separate O365 platform admin groups from those who manage ODB only.
thanks for help
JK
- StephenRice
Hi Jaroslav Karlik,
We don't have anything specific to announce at this time around delegated OneDrive for Business administrators but it is something we are looking at. Definitely add the request on the OneDrive UserVoice though as that will help us prioritize. Thanks!
Stephen Rice
OneDrive Program Manager II
How does the option to "allow users install the sync client" work? What does that actually do?
In the OneDrive Admin Center > Sharing, does the "Default sharing links" refer only to the "Share" button in a user's OneDrive page, or does it also mean the "Get a link" button?
It would be great to make this more obvious in the page as to which button this affects.
The reason I ask is because I'm sending test links from a test user account to myself (on the same organization), and when I open the link to the document it shows me as "Guest Contributor" instead of my name.
The option that is currently selected for my organization in this section is "Anonymous access - anyone with this link"
If I switch it to "Internal," will my users still have the option of external links via the "Get a link" button?
- StephenRice
Hi Mario Cajina,
The default sharing link will apply to both the "Share" command as well as "Get a link". All this setting does is set the type of link that appears when the dialogue opens, users are still free to select different types of links as needed. Thanks!
Stephen Rice
OneDrive Program Manager II
Hi StephenRice,
OK, I just tried it by changing the option, and I understand what you mean.
It'll require an extra little step for my users to select "anyone with this link" for external sharing. However, it now shows my name as the contributor for a shared file.
This is preferred since most of the collaboration will be done between people in the organization, so it won't show just a generic "Guest Contributor" in the document's activity history.
Will this change affect any links that were already sent before I changed the behavior? For example, will it break any links already sent outside the organization? Will my users have to re-send a link and make sure they select the "anyone with this link" option in the "Get a link" window?
- Ever get an answer on this? I have a feeling it our firewall.
Stephen Rose - I've setup mobile device access policy and setup Alert every time any document gets deleted. Unfortunately, nothing seems working. In fact, I've also enrolled my device using O365 MDM but no luck.
I reach out to O365 support team and they also doesn't seem to have any clue.
Hello Whenever I try to logged in on https://admin.onedrive.com, it always redirect to me Office 365 - SHarePoint admin Center. I have full access of Office 365 admin. I tested on other machine as well, but same result
Please let me know If I am missing anything.
I have the same issue Ashish.
Ashish Kanoongo wrote:Hello Whenever I try to logged in on https://admin.onedrive.com, it always redirect to me Office 365 - SHarePoint admin Center.
I noticed I am able to OneDrive Admin Preview site on my mobile, but surprisingly not able to open in IE browser. Can anyone please help what is the issue and how can i resolve it?
