OneDrive for Business – Sync Settings

OneDrive sync settings

You can use these settings to control syncing files in OneDrive and SharePoint Online

Log into your M365 tenant

Go to OneDrive admin portal

All admin centers

https://admin.microsoft.com/Adminportal/Home?source=applauncher#/alladmincenters

click on OneDrive

https://admin.onedrive.com/

click on Sync (on the left tab menu) or go from here https://admin.onedrive.com/?v=SyncSettings

By default any computer from any AD domain can sync OneDrive files

Select “allow syncing only on PCs joined to specific domains”

To get your AD obejctGUID go to your Domain Controller

Run powershell as administrator

Run get-addomain <enter>

Copy the ObjectGUID value

Or you can only run the following

(get-addomain).objectguid

Now proceed with your setup

Before

After

Copy Objectguid from ADDS and paste it Click Save Go back to a non domain joined workstation and try to sync OneDrive from there

Error when you try from a non-domain joined workstation

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What if you had synced OneDrive before IT department made changes on sync settings?

After the settings are saved and replicated on M365 tenant you’ll get the following warning

Files previously synced will continue on users’ profile if you block sync settings after users had already set this up.

After settings are replicated at M365/O365 you should see the following screen popping up

Additional settings (Next Article)

• Show the sync button on the OneDrive website
• Block sync on Mac OS
• Block syncing of specific file types (you have to specify them)

References

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/allow-syncing-only-on-specific-domains

manage sharepoint online

Get-Module -Name Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.PowerShell -ListAvailable | Select Name,Version Install-Module -Name Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.PowerShell   Answer Y (yes) or A (yes to all)   $sposite = “https://yourtenantname-admin.sharepoint.com/” Connect-SPOService -Url $sposite -Credential admin@yourtenantname.onmicrosoft.com get-SPOTenantSyncClientRestriction

Check my Github repositoryf

Thanks,

Thiago Beier