

OneDrive is cloud-based storage available through Office 365. Our issue was that the removal and re-addition of files in this way was causing alerts in sharepoint hopefully this will solve this issue.This article will help you set up Microsoft Office 365 OneDrive whether you use a Windows or Mac computer. Anything that has been added independently may remain synced. If you have deployed these by GPO and set it to recreate them on application of the policy, then these will stop being synced as soon as the policy is re-applied. Please note, if you have chosen to omit shortcuts or URL's, and have already synced these, they will remain synced until re-created. "Īnyway, I now see the icon in my one drive area of explorer to say they are not being updated and more importantly this does not appear as any kind of notification in the system tray app. "New features gradually rolling out to users:Īdmins can set a policy to exclude newly added OneDrive files from syncing to the cloud by file name or extension on Windows devices. my One drive updated this morning and magically the feature started to work! I did go back to a post and noted that this feature was under the heading Is anyone else using this and is there anything additional that needs to be set?Īs an update to this. I thought maybe it was the version of OneDrive (using the latest stable build) so I tried updating to preview version and still nothing. The problem is that it doesn't do squat in OneDrive. I've created the policy, used *.fileextension as advised and I can see the regkey being created in HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\OneDrive\EnableODIgnoreListFromGPO with my custom list of excluded files. Use Group Policy to control OneDrive sync settings - OneDrive | Microsoft Docs This led me to the GPO setting 'Exclude specific kinds of files from being uploaded' which does the same, however instead of a red X, you get a more subtle grey blocked icon and we can exclude admins. This works, however it results in an ugly red X in the user folders and also there is no granularity to allow Admins to be excluded. Initially I looked at Block Syncing of Specific Filetypes at the tenant level in OneDrive Admin. This is non-negotiable (We are aware that even blocking filetypes from syncing, users can still upload via webportal etc etc). Hi All, Based on requirements from our security team, we have to prevent users from syncing certain filetypes to their onedrive (mostly executable filetypes).
