#Apply Policies to Shared Drives

With a subscription to the Policy enforcement module, administrators can create and apply on-demand policies to monitor and enforce compliance settings across selected shared drives. These policies enable targeted, one-time compliance scans that provide immediate visibility into configuration violations without requiring ongoing scheduled jobs. This functionality is particularly useful for conducting focused audits, verifying compliance before project launches, or investigating specific security concerns.

For more details on policy enforcement and on-demand policy creation, refer to Policy Enforcement.

To apply an on-demand policy to shared drives and run compliance scanning job, complete the following steps:

1. On the Shared drives page, select one or more drives and click Run policy.

2. In the policies’ drop-down list, select the target on-demand policy to apply to the drives. When no appropriate policies can be found, click Create new policy to navigate to the Policy enforcement and create a new one.

   NOTE

   Only users with Administrator role in the platform can access the Policy enforcement module. For more details on the permission assignment in this platform, refer to Confidence Platform for Google User Management.

3. In the policy details window, check the policy details, including the operation to be performed against violations. Then, click Run to apply and run the policy’s scanning job. A job will be triggered. To check the job details, go to Job monitor.

   NOTE

   On-demand policy assigned only triggers one-time jobs, meaning that no future scheduled jobs will be triggered for the shared drives. If you want to monitor specific shared drives by schedule, manually apply and run the policy again or create automatic policies to automate the flow.