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Updated Jun 01, 2021
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Announcing a more intuitive sharing experience across Microsoft 365 for better collaboration
StephenRice
Microsoft
MicrosoftHi Ingrid Schiele,
First, a user must have edit permission in order to be able to share. It is possible to restrict this further (more in a moment) but this is the bar. If a user has read access, they will not be able to create new sharing links.
If you want to further restrict sharing, you can disable the "Members Can Share" feature. Once disabled, only users who have owner permissions will be allowed to share files & folders. This is set on a per-site collection basis.
Hope that helps!
Stephen Rice