The use of personal accounts for OneDrive synchronization must be disabled.
Severity | Group ID | Group Title | Version | Rule ID | Date | STIG Version |
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| medium | V-230564 | SRG-APP-000141 | DTOO607 | SV-230564r918123_rule | 2023-06-05 | 2 |
| Description |
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| 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. |
| ℹ️ Check |
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| If the following registry value does not exist or is not configured as specified, this is a finding. Registry Hive: HKEY_CURRENT_USER Registry Path: \Software\Policies\Microsoft\OneDrive\ Value Name: DisablePersonalSync Value Type: REG_DWORD Value: 0x00000001 (1) |
| ✔️ Fix |
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| 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. |