OneDrive – block syncing specific file extensions

One of the main key releases customers have been waiting for has been the possibility to exclude files, folders, and extensions from syncing. This is something I will explain in more depth in this section, plus some more tips and tricks for the use of OneDrive.

This setting lets you enter keywords to prevent OneDrive from uploading certain files to OneDrive. You can enter complete names, such as setup.exe, or use the asterisk (*) as a wildcard character to represent a series of characters:

Figure 10.37 – Exclude specific kinds of files from being uploaded

You can assign your OneDrive KFM policy to a device group.

This concludes this section on administrative templates. Next, we will walk through some of the many different options for device configuration with templates in Microsoft Intune.