Organizational policy controls within Syncplicity allow administrators to define how flexible or locked down they want their Business Edition environment to be. This section of the business console allows company administrators to define general user rights and boundaries. Sharing policies can be defined which control the creation of shares to ensure compliance with corporate data policies.

A brief summary of each policy is below.

Security Policies

• Folder Sharing Policy – Determines whether users have the ability to share folders with individuals who don’t have a Business Edition user account within the company.
• Shareable Links Policy - Determines whether users have the ability to share individual files with anonymous people.
• Share Naming Convention – Determines whether a share name always has the name of the creator of the share appended to the folder name. Useful for avoiding confusion in situations such as where multiple users may share different folders but name each the same such as “Project Folder”.
• Wipe Files on User Devices and Cloud apps when User Accounts are Deleted – When a user account is deleted, perform a remote wipe on all connected devices and cloud apps connected to the user account.
• Require data to be wiped whenever a Device or Cloud App is removed from a User’s Account - Any device or cloud app removed by a user or an IT admin will have a remote wipe performed on it.
• Retention - When a user no longer has access to a shared folder, that folder will be automatically wiped from all of their connected devices and cloud apps. 
• Desktop Client Active Directory Restriction Policy - By default, Syncplicity allows users in your organization to register any computer with their account and start synchronizing folders. This policy setting allows you to restrict access to the Syncplicity service to computers that are joined to your Active Directory domains. Computers that are not or are no longer domain-joined will fail to register or authenticate with the Syncplicity service. A comma can be used to separate multiple domain names.
• Mobile Application Access Policy - By default, Syncplicity allows users in your organization to access their account using Syncplicity's native mobile applications for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. Such access gives users the ability to view their news feed, browse and download files, and perform other actions. This policy setting allows you to prevent users from connecting to their Syncplicity accounts from their mobile devices. 
• Website Access Policy - By default, Syncplicity allows users in your organization to access their account in a web browser. Such access gives users the ability to view their news feed, browse and download files, change their personal information, deactivate computers, and perform other actions. This policy setting allows you to restrict access to the website only to computers that have been authorized to run the Syncplicity client and ensures the website can only be launched directly from the client using the "Browse to My Syncplicity" link. This policy setting is useful especially in conjunction with the "Installed Client Restriction Policy". 

Client Setup Policies

• Registration Wizard Configuration – Determines whether the user is given the option to configure folders to synchronize and share or to skip user configuration and only use the administrator preconfigured folders and shares.
• Client Update Policy – From time-to-time, new releases of the Syncplicity client are made available with the latest functionality, bug fixes, and performance improvements. This determines whether all installed clients within the company will prompt users to upgrade for any update, required updates, or no updates.

Collaboration Policies

• Branching Policy - When two (or more) Syncplicity users edit the same file at the same time, Syncplicity immediately detects the conflict and stores both versions safely online. By default, Syncplicity will also create a new file for each conflicting version to help users properly resolve the conflict, either by merging the two versions together or picking one as the final authoritative version. If you disable this feature, Syncplicity will instead use the version uploaded most recently as the final authoritative version.
• Expose News Feed via RSS - RSS is a popular way to subscribe to frequently changing content on the web and have such content automatically delivered to you in a variety of convenient ways. When you enable this feature on My Syncplicity, your users will be able to obtain a secure link to their Syncplicity News Feed and enter that link into applications like Microsoft Outlook and Google Reader. Once there, Outlook and Reader will periodically download the Syncplicity News Feed and present it to the user in a familiar, easy-to-use interface. Without RSS, users would instead have to log into My Syncplicity manually to find out what’s been happening inside their Syncplicity folders. 

To view and change company policies:

1. Within the Administration Console, select the set of policies you wish to change under the Security and Compliance Console or Setup and Collaboration Settings.

After you have configured the policies, click Submit 

Policies take effect immediately and affect all future operations but do not affect any pre-existing shares or settings.