Prvent file sharing and downloads in teams

However, there is a simple question we wanted to address in this post. Many people have been requesting in the Microsoft UserVoice Forum the ability to completely disable file sharing in Microsoft Teams.

This comes because of, for example, heavily regulated companies that need to disable certain types of users from sharing files back and forth. These users can be external employees, guests, teams with very sensitive data financial , or even governmental institutions with strict restrictions. The diagram below shows how Microsoft Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive are related one to the other when it comes to file sharing.

So everything points to Information Barriers, the add-on Microsoft offers for compliance on their platform. Information Barriers has some very important features like blocking adding members to teams, blocking chats or blocking placing calls.

It also has file blocking capabilities for SharePoint and OneDrive. Alina Ecke. Dear Microsoft Community, We have the following requirement for now in Teams for our users apart from the members of IT : we need to disable use of the tab Files within the channels of teams.

Thanks very much in advance. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question 0. Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. In reply to Alina Ecke's post on April 2, Control access from unmanaged devices Manage sharing settings Also, you can apply Data Loss Prevention policies on content.

Skip to main content. This browser is no longer supported. Download Microsoft Edge More info. Contents Exit focus mode. Is this page helpful? Please rate your experience Yes No. Any additional feedback? Note If you want to prevent guest sharing for a particular group or team, you can do so by using Microsoft PowerShell or sensitivity labels. Submit and view feedback for This product This page. View all page feedback. In this article. Microsoft group or team. People granted access to a Microsoft Teams team or Microsoft group have edit access to files in the associated SharePoint site.

If the group or team is private, sharing invitations to join the team go to the owner for approval. Admins can disable guest access or use sensitivity labels to prevent access by people from outside the organization. SharePoint site. People can be granted Owner, Member, or Visitor access to a SharePoint site and will have that level of access to files in the site. Site permissions can be restricted so that only site owners can share the site. Admins can set a site to read-only or block access entirely.

Sharing with specific people. Site members and people with edit permissions can give direct permissions to files and folders or share them by using Specific people links. Site permissions can be restricted so that only site owners can share files and folders.

In this case, direct access and Specific people link sharing by site members goes to site owner for approval. SharePoint and OneDrive guest sharing. SharePoint site owners and members and OneDrive owners can share files and folders with people outside the organization. Guest sharing can be disabled for the entire organization or for individual sites. People in your organization sharing links. SharePoint site owners and members can share files using People in your organization links, which will work for anyone inside the organization.

People in your organization links can be disabled at the site level.