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  1. OneDrive connects you to your personal and shared files in Microsoft 365, enhancing collaboration capabilities within Microsoft 365 apps. With OneDrive on the web, desktop, or mobile, you can access all your personal files plus the files shared with you from other people or teams, including files from Microsoft Teams and SharePoint.
  2. Microsoft 365 is a full suite of productivity and collaboration tools, including Microsoft Office apps like Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. It also includes OneDrive, SharePoint, Planner and more. Log into Microsoft 365 Report an Issue.
  3. When you install Microsoft Office 2016, the OneDrive sync client (OneDrive.exe) is included in the installation package. This article describes how to use Group Policy settings and registry modification to block access to OneDrive from within the Office applications.

/en/word/getting-started-with-word/content/ Introduction. Many of the features in Office are geared toward saving and sharing files online. OneDrive is Microsoft’s online storage space that you can use to save, edit, and share your documents and other files. For example, if you use a folder called Word Documents for your Microsoft Word files, move that entire folder into OneDrive (so, that would be C: Users username OneDrive Word Documents).

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Summary

When you install Microsoft Office 2016, the OneDrive sync client (OneDrive.exe) is included in the installation package. This article describes how to use Group Policy settings and registry modification to block access to OneDrive from within the Office applications.

More Information

To block OneDrive access for Office 2016 users in your organization, follow these steps:

  1. Download the Office 2016 Administrative Template files (ADMX/ADML) and Office Customization Tool.

  2. Use the Office 2016 Administrative Templates to configure Group Policy settings under User configuration > Administrative Templates > Microsoft Office 2016 > Miscellaneous as follows:

    1. Set the Show OneDrive Sign In setting to Disabled:

    2. Enable the Block signing into Office setting, and set it to Org ID only:

To prevent users from adding their personal OneDrive account, use one of the following methods:

Use a Group Policy object

Use the Office 2016 Administrative Templates to configure Group Policy settings.

Under User configuration > Administrative Templates > Microsoft Office 2016 > Miscellaneous, configure Hide file locations when opening or saving files as Hide OneDrive Personal.

Note

This policy setting only applies to Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.

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Modify the registry

Open registry editor and browse to the following registry key:

Modify the DWORD value 'OnlineStorage'.

Available values are:

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  • 0 Policy is off (all locations are shown)

  • 1 Only OneDrive Personal locations are hidden

  • 2 All SharePoint Online locations are hidden

  • 3 All Microsoft Online Locations are hidden

If you set other values, the policy is off (all locations are shown).

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If the value is set to 1, uses can no longer see their personal OneDrive location under Add a place.

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To block the use of OneDrive from within Windows, see How to block OneDrive.exe from being advertised after you install Office 2016.

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To configure the update settings for Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise, see the following TechNet resource: