Enable One drive for Business Sync App only - Disable One Drive

Hi,

1: How do we block login to personnal one drive for an o365 user (therefore using OneDriveFor Business) on a corporate device?

2. Regarding the Sync app client for local synchro (off line mode) is it the same client used by One drive (personnal) and OneDriveFor Business (process Groove.exe)? How do we make the difference if any?

3:How do we block personnal usage from usage with ODFB when synchronizing to local device?

Thks in advance

July 3rd, 2015 9:42am

Hi,

Regarding your questions:

1. I'm not sure what you mean by "a corporate device", a computer?

For example, if you need to prevent users from signing into OneDrive Personal in Office 2013 programs, we will need to deploy the policy for the users.

Make sure you have the 2013 Administrative Template files downloaded:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35554

Then in the Group Policy Editor, go to User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office 2013 -> Miscellaneous -> Block signing into Office. Set the option to Enabled and specify "Org ID only". Then the user will not be able to sign in OneDrive Personal, but only be able to sign in OneDrive for Business.

2. Since OneDrive and OneDrive for Business are two different products/services, they have different clients. You can visit this link below and see the two separate downloads:

https://onedrive.live.com/about/en-us/download/

3. As mentioned above, they use different clients, we don't need to block the OneDrive usage with OneDrive for Business - there is no such thing.

Regards,

Melon Chen
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