This article will help admins manage OneDrive using group policies, provided it's a Windows Server enterprise environment that uses Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS).
Here's how you can do it:
- Install OneDrive sync app and browse to C:\Program Files (x86)\ Microsoft OneDrive\BuildNumber\adm.
- Copy the .adml and .admx files.
- Paste the admx file in \\domain\sysvol\domain\Policies\PolicyDefinitions (where domain is your domain name), and the adml file in the language subfolder such as en-us.
- Configure settings from the domain controller or on a Windows computer by running the Remote Server Administration Tools.
- Link the Group Policy Objects (GPOs) to the required Active Directory container.
- You can use security filtering to apply the GPO only to a subset of users in the container.
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- Create custom alerts for admin/user activities and receive real-time email alerts with meticulous details on the action that triggered the alert.
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- Track file and folder activities in OneDrive for Business, in real time. You can also create your own auditing profile to scrutinize specific operations.
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