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Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Group Policy. Sign in to vote. In the Starting sync dialog, select the Copy library ID link. The special characters in this copied string are in Unicode and must be converted to ASCII according to the following table.

Enabling this policy sets the following registry key, using the entire URL from the library you copied:. If you enable this setting, syncing continues when devices are on a metered network. OneDrive does not automatically pause syncing.

If you disable or do not configure this setting, syncing pauses automatically when a metered network is detected and a notification appears. To not pause, in the notification, select Sync Anyway. When syncing is paused, to resume syncing, in the notification area of the taskbar, select the OneDrive cloud icon, and at the top of the Activity Center, select the alert. This setting lets you turn off the auto-pause feature for devices that have battery saver mode turned on.

If you enable this setting, syncing continues when users turn on battery saver mode. If you disable or do not configure this setting, syncing pauses automatically when battery saver mode is detected and a notification appears. This setting lets you configure the maximum speed at which the OneDrive sync app OneDrive.

This rate is a fixed value in kilobytes per second, and applies only to syncing, not to downloading updates. The lower the rate, the slower the files download. We recommend that you use this setting in cases where Files On-Demand is NOT enabled, and where strict traffic restrictions are required, such as when you initially deploy the sync app in your organization or enable syncing of team sites.

We don't recommend that you use this setting on an ongoing basis because it decreases sync app performance and negatively impacts the user experience. After the initial sync, users typically sync only a few files at a time, and it doesn't have a significant effect on network performance. If you enable this setting, computers use the maximum download rate that you specify, and users are not able to change it.

If you enable this setting, enter the rate from 1 to in the Bandwidth box. If you disable or do not configure this setting, the download rate is unlimited, and users can choose to limit it in OneDrive sync app settings.

Enabling this policy sets the following registry key value to a number from 50 through , For example:. This rate is a fixed value in kilobytes per second. The lower the rate, the slower the computer uploads files. If you enable this setting and enter the rate from 1 to in the Bandwidth box, computers use the maximum upload rate that you specify, and users are not able to change it in OneDrive settings.

We recommend that you use this setting only in cases where strict traffic restrictions are required. In scenarios where you need to limit the upload rate such as when you roll out Known Folder Move , we recommend enabling Limit the sync app upload rate to a percentage of throughput to set a limit that adjusts to changing conditions.

This setting lets you block users from changing the location of the OneDrive folder on their computer. To use this setting, in the Options box, select Show , and enter your tenant ID. To enable the setting, enter 1; to disable it, enter 0. If you enable this setting, the Change location link is hidden in OneDrive Setup. The OneDrive folder is created in the default location, or in the custom location you specified if you enabled Set the default location for the OneDrive folder.

If you disable this setting, users can change the location of their sync folder in OneDrive Setup. This setting lets you block users from signing in with a Microsoft account to sync their personal OneDrive files.

By default, users are allowed to sync personal OneDrive accounts. If you enable this setting, users are prevented from setting up a sync relationship for their personal OneDrive account. Users who are already syncing their personal OneDrive when you enable this setting aren't able to continue syncing they receive a message that syncing has stopped , but any files synced to the computer remain on the computer.

This setting will be removed soon. We recommend using the new setting Set the sync app update ring instead. This setting lets you set a specific path as the default location of the OneDrive folder on users' computers. To specify your tenant ID and the path, in the Options box, select Show. Deploy the new OneDrive sync app in an enterprise environment. Prevent users from installing the sync app. Allow syncing only on computers joined to specific domains.

Block syncing of specific file types. Deploy and configure the new OneDrive sync app for Mac. Lists sync policies. Skip to main content. This browser is no longer supported. Download Microsoft Edge More info. Contents Exit focus mode. Is this page helpful? Please rate your experience Yes No. Any additional feedback? Important If you enable or disable this setting, and then change it back to Not Configured, the last configuration will remain in effect.

Note This setting will only block files that match your specification. Note Users can still browse to their OneDrive in a web browser to upload an excluded file from their local OneDrive folder. Note This setting gives you more flexibility than the Block syncing of specific file types setting in the admin center. Note The maximum throughput value detected by the sync app can sometimes be higher or lower than expected because of the different traffic throttling mechanisms that your Internet Service Provider ISP might use.

Important If you enable or disable this setting, and then change it back to Not Configured, the last configuration remains in effect.

Note Even if you enable this policy, users won't receive notifications if they've selected the "Always remove files" check box on a previous notification, or if they've cleared the "Notify me when many files are deleted in the cloud" check box in OneDrive sync app settings. Important We recommend selecting several people in your IT department as early adopters to join the Insiders ring and receive features early.

Note We recommend deploying the silent policy for existing devices and new devices while limiting the deployment of existing devices to 1, devices a day and not exceeding 4, devices a week. Important We recommend enabling silent account configuration when you configure the sync app.

Important We recommend keeping Files On-Demand enabled. So navigate to the document library where your files are stored. With default settings, everything in SharePoint inherits permissions from its parent. So your document libraries will automatically inherit permissions from the site itself. To restrict the downloading of files, we need to break permission inheritance. As you can see, the group we created — Demo for Preventing Downloads — is listed here.

But, as you can see, the site members and certain users still have their previous permissions. Basically, if they could download documents before, they still can. This will prevent everyone accessing the document library other than the users you added to the new group. As long as you added all current site members to the new group, they can still access the document library.

After completing the steps in this blog post, users can open files in the browser but can no longer download or print them. Furthermore, users cannot copy and paste the contents of a file. Thanks for reading! Bill, could some of those be slipping through as part of other installs?

I know Java will install Chrome by default unless the user unchecks that option during setup. The problem was that a student happened to find a freeware download site that wasn't blocked by our web filter and happened to download chrome. Other students downloaded Firefox. Now they've found the loophole site which we could block but it has opened our eyes to the possibility of future downloads, and we want to nip it in the bud.

Why not have make the students limited users. The only way you are going to prevent things like that from running is to stop all program execution except for the file s you allow. This is a cumbersome tedious way to do it and only really works when you whitelist files that reside on the machine in locations that the users can't modify - so no local admin rights for users, please.

Google chrome installs to HKCU by default, so if they can run programs they can "install" chrome. You can also have lots of things run from a "live disk" - no install needed. Programs setup that way typically were intended to run off a USB drive, but they can just as easily be put somewhere on the user desktop and run from there. Again, if they can run programs, they can run an alternate browser. Stopping it from "installing" on the machine isn't the only issue.

You are talking about stopping program execution.