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The use of personal accounts for OneDrive synchronization must be disabled.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

OneDrive provides access to external services for data storage, which must be restricted to authorized instances. Enabling this setting will prevent the use of personal OneDrive accounts for synchronization.

ID
SV-230564r918123_rule
Version
DTOO607
Severity
Medium
References
Updated

Remediation Templates

A Manual Procedure

Configure the policy value for User Configuration >> Administrative Templates >> OneDrive >> "Prevent users from syncing personal OneDrive accounts" to "Enabled". 

Group policy files for OneDrive are located on a system with OneDrive in "%localappdata%\Microsoft\OneDrive\BuildNumber\adm\".

Copy the OneDrive.admx and .adml files to the \Windows\PolicyDefinitions and \Windows\PolicyDefinitions\en-US directories respectively.