Office 2016 for Mac: Disable cloud services (OneDrive, Sharepoint)

[mthakur]

Is there any way to disable cloud services in Office 2016 for Mac, specifically the OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, and Sharepoint?

Specifically, management wants the Save As panel to disable the button for "Online Locations":

If disabling that button in the Save As panel isn't possible, is it possible to disable the ability to "Add a Place":

And if that isn't possible, can we at least disable the builtin cloud storage locations:

Any ideas? We're still using Managed Preferences, but Configuration Profiles could work too.

Thanks!

[boberito · Accepted solution]

#!/bin/sh
getUser=`ls -l /dev/console | awk '{ print $3 }'`
defaults write /Users/$getUser/Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.Office/com.microsoft.officeprefs.plist DefaultsToLocalOpenSave -bool TRUE
chmod -R 700 /Users/$getUser/Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.Office/
chown -R $getUser: /Users/$getUser/Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.Office/

I have this script set to run when a user installs Office 2016 through self service. It sets the default save to local.

[mthakur]

@boberito Thank you.

It turns out there is more information in this thread:

https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/discussion.html?id=17045

[boberito]

Yup yup. Been all over that thread. That's probably where I find the fix I suggested.