You need to override
sales_order_grid.xml
as you said. Put this code into your module, file view/adminhtml/ui_component/sales_order_grid.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!--
/**
* Copyright © Magento, Inc. All rights reserved.
* See COPYING.txt for license details.
*
* file <Vendor>/<Module name>/view/adminhtml/ui_component/sales_order_grid.xml
*/
-->
<listing xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:module:Magento_Ui:etc/ui_configuration.xsd">
<columns name="sales_order_columns">
<column name="store_id" class="Magento\Store\Ui\Component\Listing\Column\Store">
<settings>
<label translate="true">Purchase Point</label>
<bodyTmpl>ui/grid/cells/html</bodyTmpl>
<sortable>false</sortable>
<visible>false</visible>
<controlVisibility>false</controlVisibility>
</settings>
</column>
<column name="shipping_name">
<settings>
<filter>text</filter>
<label translate="true">Ship-to Name</label>
<visible>false</visible>
<controlVisibility>false</controlVisibility>
</settings>
</column>
<column name="signifyd_guarantee_status" component="Magento_Ui/js/grid/columns/select">
<settings>
<filter>select</filter>
<options class="Magento\Signifyd\Ui\Component\Listing\Column\Guarantee\Options"/>
<visible>false</visible>
<dataType>select</dataType>
<label translate="true">Signifyd Guarantee Decision</label>
<controlVisibility>false</controlVisibility>
</settings>
</column>
</columns>
</listing>
But, this only work for newly created users. For existing users, you need to truncate table ui_bookmark as you can see on link
For a detailed explanation, you can check following
My suggestion is to put that in UpgradeData file, for example
<?php
namespace <Vendor>\<Module name>\Setup;
use Magento\Framework\Setup\ModuleContextInterface;
use Magento\Framework\Setup\ModuleDataSetupInterface;
use Magento\Framework\Setup\UpgradeDataInterface;
/**
* Data upgrade script
*
* @SuppressWarnings(PHPMD.CouplingBetweenObjects)
*/
class UpgradeData implements UpgradeDataInterface
{
/**
* {@inheritdoc}
*/
public function upgrade(ModuleDataSetupInterface $setup, ModuleContextInterface $context)
{
$setup->startSetup();
if (version_compare($context->getVersion(), '1.0.2', '<')) {
// Empty ui_bookmark table, so that new column's settings take power.
$setup->getConnection()->truncateTable(
$setup->getTable('ui_bookmark')
);
}
$setup->endSetup();
}
}