Office 2016/O365 default file locations in GPO

Question

I am currently in the process of rolling out 2016/365 and need to create a GPO so that the files are by default stored in the user's Documents folder. I am not able to locate the place to configure for all of Office or does it need to be on a per application setting? I am using %userprofile\Documents but want to make sure it is saving to the right location, I CANNOT have users saving to OneDrive as of yet.

Solution 1

1. Press Win+R keyboard shortcut to open the “Run” dialog box.
2. Type GPedit.msc and hit Enter or click “OK” to open Local Group Policy Editor.
3. Navigate to “Local Computer Policy” → “Computer Configuration” → “Administrative Templates” → “Windows Components” → “OneDrive”.
4. In the right pane, double click on the policy named “Prevent the usage of OneDrive for file storage”.
5. Select the “Enabled” radio button.

Use of OneDrive will be prohibited.

Solution 2

make a GPO entry for : HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\General\PreferCloudSaveLocations DWORD 0 for NOT storing on OneDrive by default. That ought to do the trick.

Comments

[Ramhound]

There exists Office ADMX templates offered by Microsoft have you installed those?

[Michael Deininger]

I have installed the ADMX files and am not certain where to make the changes or change the settings. I find information on Office 2013 but the settings are not the same, similar, but not the same.

[Citizen]

What server version are you using?

[Ramhound]

@MichaelDeininger Why do you have the Office 2013 templates installed if your using Office 2016?

[d3crypt3d]

create gpo with this setting and apply to necessary groups/users