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IT Admins: Help Taking My Work With Me?

I have a large repository of reference info that I've built inside a OneNote notebook owned by my work 365 account. None of the information is sensitive/specific to my current company, and while it would take a ton of work to do, I could technically rebuild it offline with publicly available information. I'm getting increasingly concerned about being laid off, and ideally, I want to take a copy of this notebook with me. I used to have a separate VM set up to sync a copy of this periodically (I'd turn it on once a week to sync the latest changes). However, my company activated the Data Loss Prevention functionality of our 365 licenses last week, and all devices (laptop & mobile) now have to have Intune deployed to access any work resources directly. We also can't mount any external drives/network shares without a help desk password. Here is my…


I have a large repository of reference info that I've built inside a OneNote notebook owned by my work 365 account. None of the information is sensitive/specific to my current company, and while it would take a ton of work to do, I could technically rebuild it offline with publicly available information.

I'm getting increasingly concerned about being laid off, and ideally, I want to take a copy of this notebook with me. I used to have a separate VM set up to sync a copy of this periodically (I'd turn it on once a week to sync the latest changes). However, my company activated the Data Loss Prevention functionality of our 365 licenses last week, and all devices (laptop & mobile) now have to have Intune deployed to access any work resources directly. We also can't mount any external drives/network shares without a help desk password.

Here is my question: Which of these paths would be the least detectable way of me keeping an updated copy of this notebook?

A. Stand up a new VM, enroll it in Intune, keep it off most of the time but turn it on periodically to sync like I was doing before. If laid off, I'd just disable internet access to that VM, make a copy from the synced version and move that file to a local network store.
B. “Share” the notebook via a link with my personal 365 account, and periodically make a separate copy “owned” by that personal account.
C. Make a copy of the OneNote 2016 file & upload it to an encrypted cloud storage solution.
D. Better alternative?

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