How to enable Block Download Policy in Office 365

Question

Question: How do I enable the Block Download Policy in Office 365 (or enable from SharePoint Admin Center?)

Tenant: Office 365 GCC High

Permissions used: Global Admin

Reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/block-download-from-sites

Attached image: What "license" is needed to execute this command?

The reference site does not mention Office 365, only Microsoft 365, which makes me think the "Block Download Policy" is a feature only available in commercial Microsoft. If true, is there another way to block downloads specifically on SharePoint sites?

Answer 1

Block download policy for SharePoint sites and OneDrive is one of SharePoint Advanced Management features.

So, in addition to the license you currently have, this feature requires a Microsoft Syntex - SharePoint Advanced Management license.

As a workaround, conditional access policy also can block download for all SharePoint site collections.

Note: Due to GCC High environment, cannot apply conditional access policy for one site collection.

Require one of following licenses:

• Microsoft Syntex - SharePoint Advanced Management
• Microsoft 365 E5/A5/G5
• Microsoft 365 E5/A5/G5/F5 Compliance
• Microsoft 365 E5/F5 Information Protection and Governance
• Office 365 E5/A5/G5

Steps:

1.Go to Azure Active Directory admin center -> Protect&secure -> Conditional Access -> New policy.

2.In the Users section:

3.In the Cloud apps and sections:

4.In the Session section:

5.Enable policy.

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