Office 365 provides a number of global policies that allow us to set some level of business process rules across our tenant. However these policies such as Data Loss Prevention do not extend to all applications in the tenant.
Additionally Office 365 changes to the applications may bypass or render your well intended policies defunct.
To illustrate this, lets look at one of the updates to OneDrive that is currently being rolled out.
Feature ID: 62665 from the myriad of latest Office 365 updates states the following:
“Allow user to override locked file to delete – Users are unable to delete a document because if they had it opened in another tab on a different computer, or because someone else had it open and forgot about it, effectively locking the document. This feature allows you to override that lock and delete a WXP file when someone (or yourself) has it open, whether intentionally or not.”
This update my be a good addition for users who want a quick fix to poor practices.
However, it goes against good practices policies, validation policies and compliance policies.