Add Enterprise Control for Plugins and Sync

Feature requests
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Allow enterprise-level controls for commercial licenses

There is a demand to use this software for some proprietary applications, but currently community plugins cannot be disabled, are not reviewed or trusted, and there are no enterprise management features that would allow IT departments to safely restrict which plugins are used. In other words, we don’t have a safe way to use even the pro/paid versions. Obsidian cloud sync is explicitly denied. The absence of these features restricts Obsidian from being considered in many use cases where it would otherwise be incomparably superior to alternatives (OneNote, email correspondance, etc.).

Proposed solution

Please allow commercial licenses to be more easily configured for enterprise use, similar to security features which exist for other software geared towards corporate use (e.g. Microsoft Teams). At minimum, allow restriction/disabling of plugins and cloud sync.

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Rewording the title to make it closer to the original ask.

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+1 On this – The two main concerns for my organization are plugin restriction (users cannot install unapproved plugins) and identity restriction (users cannot login to sync on non-company accounts).

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Absolutely a required feature at this point. Can’t easily convince a company that is concerned with safety that using this tool will be safe without some form of plugin restriction that can be pushed from an admin portal/account. Perhaps setting it up as whomever has the admin permissions can pull community plugins from the larger pool and put them in a ‘managed plugins’ area. that way the admins can vet and approve what is being requested by their users without exposing potentially sensitive information to unknown sources.