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

An XCCDF Rule

Description

<VulnDiscussion>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.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>

ID
SV-230564r918123_rule
Severity
Medium
References
Updated



Remediation - 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.