It is possible to disable SkyDrive, right?

Hi,
Office 2013 prominently gives users the option to save to SkyDrive - if they have a Microsoft (Hotmail, Live, XBox etc) account they just need to enter a username and password and they are away, nice and easy.
Unfortunately, and I'm sure I'm not alone here, company policy forbids the use of cloud services on information security grounds.
The only GPO setting I can find relating to this is User Configuration/Policies/Administrative Templates/Microsoft
Office 2013/Miscellaneous/Show SkyDrive Sign in
Unfortunately,
this
doesn't fully remove access to SkyDrive. Am I missing something?
Thanks,
Tim

Absolutely correct. I am a security contractor, and the security of my client data is dependent upon the security of the computing devices I use. To that end, all my machines run PGP Whole disk Encryption all data is contained in encrypted Virtual Drive's.
But SkyDrive is simply a backdoor I cannot remove. I have no domain controller to enforce a security policy and yes I could devise a local policy to enforce a blockade on the functions of SkyDrive other posters have correctly indicated this breaks other functionality.
But That is also missing the point, Why the hell should I have to go to this extent to enforce what should be a pretty obvious thing. The data I work with belongs to my clients whom I am obligated to protect under ITAR and the OSA. I am liable if this data
falls into anyone's hands but those contractually permitted to observe it.
I have spent approximately 4 hours mapping out Microsoft's SkyDrive Live servers and have blocked multiple address ranges depending upon where my computer finds it's next entry-point. As another poster writes because most firewalls operate on an IP address
not a domain name, this means that it is necessary to map out the servers Microsoft is using and we all know that since the address can be round-robined.
So far my efforts now result in the SkyDrive integrated services in Office 2013 timing out when they attempt a connection. I appear to have blocked access to SkyDrive without disrupting other online features of office 2013. However this will only function until
d.docs.live.net is re-pointed on another one of Microsoft's numerous address ranges. I currently have 14 rules blocking access to various address ranges indicated by the rotation of d.docs.live.net.
Currently I am entertaining a switch to Linux I have been testing product and document compatibility and for my purposes Linux versions of applications I depend on are available (PGP, VMware, etc) hell even Linux can play FLAC files by default. Microsoft
needs to resolve these issues because I am not prepared to live with their spyware on my computer.

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