How to Remove OneDrive from Microsoft Teams

Reference article: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/turn-off-teams-native-file-upload-policy

1. Login with your administrator Azure Account in Powershell

Using powershell, execute the following command: az login

More details can be found here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/reference-index?view=azure-cli-latest#az-login

2. Turn-off for Entire Tenant

The following command will disable the OneDrive file-upload means

Set-CsTeamsFilesPolicy -Identity Global -NativeFileEntryPoints Disabled

3. Remove OneDrive button in Microsoft Teams

Now login as a administrator at https://admin.teams.microsoft.com/. 

1. On the left side in the menu bar, navigate to 'Teams Apps' > 'Setup Policies'.

Administrator teams menu

2. In the following list of policies select 'Global (Org-wide default)'.

Overview Policies

3. From there, under pinned apps, select 'OneDrive' (1) and click Remove (2). 

Remove OneDrive

4. Now Click 'Save' in order to Save the policy.

Save Policy

Undo the disabling of OneDrive

With the following powershell command you can undo the file upload policy (OneDrive will be enabled again).

Remove-CsTeamsFilesPolicy -Identity Global

Then as an administrator, login into your Microsoft Teams admin center.

Teams Apps > Setup Policies > Global (Org-wide default). 

And click 'add apps' and search for the OneDrive. Make sure to Save the policy.

Add apps