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Will anonymous external sharing be disabled: New ways to govern access of external users
Hello, we just received the Major Update Notification: New ways to govern access of external users are coming to Office 365
When I read the accompanied https://support.microsoft.com/mk-mk/help/4089534/how-to-grant-the-everyone-claim-to-external-users-in-office-365 I conclude that external anonymous sharing will not work anymore after this date. And that when using Office365 groups in collaboration with external users we will be fine and nothing changes. Are my assumptions correct?
IMHO, you are not correct.
What will change is that external users will see only the content that has been shared directly with them or with Groups to which the external users belong.
This applies only to external users which are required to sign-in, while anonymous sharing will continue to work as usual.
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IMHO, you are not correct.
What will change is that external users will see only the content that has been shared directly with them or with Groups to which the external users belong.
This applies only to external users which are required to sign-in, while anonymous sharing will continue to work as usual.
Hi Salvatore, thanks for the clarification. Good to hear.
- StephenRice
Microsoft
Salvatore Biscari is correct. This change only changes the "Everyone", "All Authenticated Users" and "All Forms Users" claims/groups. So before this change, if you shared something to "Everyone", that content would be accessible by all users in your organization and all guest users in your directory. Now, it will only be the first group. Hope that helps!
Stephen Rice
OneDrive Program Manager II
Totally agree here with Salvatore Biscari . Adding also StephenRice
