M365 One Drive Access to Specific Users

Allowing OneDrive access to specific users within your organization. OneDrive is a powerful cloud storage solution, but sometimes you may need to restrict access to certain users for security, compliance, or operational reasons.

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Allow One Drive Access to Specific Users

For business reasons, we need to allow OneDrive access for selected users while blocking it for the remaining users, ensuring that everyone continues to have access to SharePoint.

  1. Login Microsoft 365 Admin Center

  2. Expand Teams and Groups

  3. Active Teams & Groups

  4. Navigate to Security Group

  5. Create a Security Group who needs Access to One Drive

  6. Navigate to SharePoint Admin Center

  7. Click on More Feature

  8. Open User Profile

  9. Click on Manage User Permission

  10. Add Newly Created Security Group

  11. Select the Default Group (everyone Except External Users)

  12. Uncheck Create Personal Site

  13. Select the Newly Added Security Group (One Drive Allowed Users)

  14. Check Create Personal Site , Follow People and Edit Profile and Use Tags and Notes