new onedrive for business sync client changes

To find out all the details on this exciting new feature then check out our comprehensive TechNet article. Today this feature will allow you to manage sync on the existing PC client and we’ll continue this support with the new unified sync client when we ship that later this year. It should be noted that this feature will work with PC’s that can be managed through Active Directory Group Policy, it will therefore automatically block all sync on Apple Macintosh machines which have no equivalent of Group Policy management. What’s more we collect the details every time a sync client request is allowed or blocked and you can filter these results in our new compliance center auditing & reporting features which are rolling out soon. To enable this feature and list the allowed domains administrators will run a cmdlet in the SharePoint Online Management Shell.

Any OneDrive for Business sync client requests originating from PC’s that aren’t domain-joined or aren’t members of the allowed domains will be blocked. The IT administrator defines a list of domains that they will allow sync client requests from. Today we’re excited to announce that we’re releasing this capability for OneDrive for Business administrators! This complements the other data loss prevention investments we’re making right across Office 365. Many organizations want to ensure their users are only able to sync files to managed or domain-joined PC’s thereby limiting data leakage possibilities on unmanaged home and personal computers. Check out the details for Windows OS here and Apple OS here. In addition to the work we’re doing on the sync client we’re also investing in administration features that allow IT to manage the sync function to limit potential data leakage. New OneDrive for Business Sync Client I know a lot of you have been waiting for this for some time, but it’s finally here and ready to deploy.

For the user experience around sync we’re doing a lot of work with our new unified sync client that will bring new capabilities such as selective sync. The ability to take OneDrive for Business files offline, apply changes and then sync those changes back is fundamental to helping people manage their files effectively across devices.

New onedrive for business sync client changes