

However, will not affect the signed in state of Office." Providing credentials for licensing purposes when that ID type has been disabled, A user can license their product using any applicable ID if they have a valid license associated with that account. "Note: This policy does not apply to licensing. Office shared PC installs, even contains the following note in the description: Just to add to what was discussed here - the MS provided "Block signing into Office" GPO (under "User Config > Admin Templates > Microsoft Office 2016 > Miscellaneous") which, as you suggested, would control OneDrive usage for Has anyone found a deployable solution that will remove/disable the above options? It looks cluttered at best, and exposes us to data leakage at worst. So far, I have found no way to remove these elements apart from going to the registry and removing the ability to use online services/the sign-in option completely, which then renders the software useless because it can't be activated. The first is our OneDrive (Corporate) subscription, which we don't (want to) use, the second is our Sharepoint subscription, which we don't use for file storage, and the third is their personal OneDrive should they wish to sign in as that. However, the Office 2016 applications themselves take no notice of this, because the user is signed into the applications (and has to be to activate their license), they see the following options in their 'Save As' dialog box: We have also removed the OneDrive client itself from the standard image so it's not present even if someone tries to use it/login. On our standard Windows 10 build we have configured the GPO which states "Prevent the use of OneDrive for file storage". Microsoft's 'Cloud Strategy' started to get in the way. Users logged in and activated the software without a problem, that is, until We deployed the software as part of our standard build, which is Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB.

We recently updated all of our users to Office 365 (2016) using Enterprise E3 licenses.
