How do I disable attachments in Outlook draft messages for my organization?

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How do I disable attachments in Outlook draft messages for my organization?

Jessica M. McGeary 20

My company wants to create a policy that prevents people from starting an Outlook message, adding an attachment to that message, going to another computer or device, opening Outlook on that device, and downloading the file from their draft message. we have O365 and Exchange Online. All the information I've found on setting Outlook options or draft options or any of that has been for individual users rather than organizations. I've been told that it can be done via powershell and office group policies, but TBH, I don't have much Powershell familiarity. Any suggestions?

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Hello, @Jessica M. McGeary,

Welcome to the Microsoft Q&A platform!

Based on your description, I understand that you do not want users to download attachments from your draft emails on other devices. Unfortunately there is no built-in functionality in Exchange to fulfill your needs.

I know that there is the ability to set up conditional access policies based on device in Microsoft Entra, which is similar to your needs, and you can check out the following document to get a general idea: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity/conditional-access/concept-condition-filters-for-devices?source=recommendations.

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Alex Zhang

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2024-11-01T06:59:43.76+00:00

Hello, @Jessica M. McGeary,

Is there any update on this thread? If the issue has been resolved, please mark the helpful replies as answers, this will make answer searching in the forum easier and be beneficial to other community members as well. Thanks for your understanding.

Best Wishes,

Alex Zhang
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2024-11-06T01:13:24.5066667+00:00

Hello, @Jessica M. McGeary,

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