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Ken Hardin
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Dec 13, 2017
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Setting "Anyone" share link permissions on individual sites in Sharepoint

We are attempting to use Sharepoint sites / collections to store various common Documents.   We want to create different sites for specific purposes (Finance, Art, etc.)   We occasionally wil...
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  • Salvatore Biscari's avatar
    Salvatore Biscari
    Dec 14, 2017
    1. The script updates the setting only for existing sites.
    2. Correct.
Andrew Mueller's avatar
Andrew Mueller
Copper Contributor
Dec 14, 2017

Thanks Salvatore Biscari, good point.  The new SPO Admin Center has the new modern site collections on it, but I have not heard an ETA for GA.  The preview right now shows all of them but there are very few controls yet. 

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Ken Hardin
Copper Contributor
Dec 14, 2017

Thanks for the reply Salvatore Biscari.

 

In the documentation you reference, there is a script that will "Updating the sharing setting for all sites in a tenant."

 

Two Questions, if I may:

 

1) Will this modify the sharing setting for all current and FUTURE sites, or would this need to be run again when new sites are created?

 

2) Just to be clear, the parameter ExternalUserAndGuestSharing is the one that will turn on anonymous sharing permissions (Anyone), correct?

 

Thanks again, 

 

Ken

 

and continued thanks to Andrew Mueller

 

 

  • Salvatore Biscari's avatar
    Salvatore Biscari
    Silver Contributor
    Dec 14, 2017
    1. The script updates the setting only for existing sites.
    2. Correct.
    • Ken Hardin's avatar
      Ken Hardin
      Copper Contributor
      Dec 14, 2017

      Thanks!

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        Ken Hardin
        Copper Contributor
        Dec 29, 2017

        Salvatore Biscari Hello Again, Mr. Biscari:

         

        I have attempted to run the Powershell script as directed (see attached for mods) and I get a bunch of red (I assume error) feedback from Powershell prior to the closing "External Sharing Capability updated for all sites." message displaying.

         

         

        And, predictably, the Anyone Sharing setting has not changed in the Sharepoint interface.

         

        Can you refer us to some source that can handle this task for a fee, etc.? Candidly, we never expected to have to suss out running a script to set a very basic permission such as File Sharing on what is marketed as a SaaS solution, and are simply out of out depth here, I am afraid.

         

        I have attached our edits to the script, in case we have simply made some obvious blunder.

         

        Thanks so much for all your help.

         

        Ken