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Our company's Internet access infrastructure blocks access to some sites, resulting among other things in the impossibility for the OneDrive sync client to do its magic.

Alas, it does so in such a way that the OneDrive client emits a request e.g. to retrieve a file, the request is honored by the proxy, but then retrieval of the file by the client is denied. As a result, the client retries forever to retrieve the files, causing huge Internet traffic (10's of GBs per day)--which is monitored by IT, who then complains about "some machine eating up bandwidth."

In Windows 8.1, enabling the "Prevent the usage of OneDrive for file storage" policy was enough to keep IT happy.

Apparently in Windows 10, this is not enough: the OneDrive client always starts and eats up bandwidth.

How can this be disabled once and for all?

SBA

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Hi,

In addition to "Prevent the usage of OneDrive for file storage" policy, I also recommend you disable "Save documents to OneDrive by default" to check if it can do some help. As another workaround, we can also unlink your Microsoft account from your Windows account if possible, once your Microsoft account disconnected from your Windows account, the OneDrive will not work on your machine.

Since the main issue you encountered is the bandwidth, so we can also consider to limit the bandwidth usage of OneDrive program instead of disabling it.

Regards

The other policy was already configured.

I cannot disassociate my MSA from OneDrive as this is my primary/personal account and I need OneDrive (on many other devices)

I'll try disabling OneDrive in Task Manager under Startup.

• Edited by sba Wednesday, April 29, 2015 7:16 AM updated after I checked the test system

Hello,

Try disabling the OneDrive sync for Metered Connection also in addition to the policy you mentioned:

http://www.kapilarya.com/turn-on-or-off-skydrive-for-metered-connections

Hope this helps, Good luck :)

The Task Manager trick seems to fit the bill!

• Proposed as answer by Yolanda ZhuMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator 4 hours 23 minutes ago
• Marked as answer by sba 15 minutes ago

I confirm this still works in 10074, even though there is no more "OneDrive" branch under "Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Windows Components" (???!!!)