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Will anonymous external sharing be disabled: New ways to govern access of external users
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.
MicrosoftSalvatore 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
- How do you share files in groups with an anonymous link? It is greyed out for me, and I have anonymous sharing turned on in the Admin portal.
- StephenRice
Hi Harold Anderson,
Anonymous sharing is disabled by default for group-connected sites. You will need to use SharePoint Online Management PowerShell to change that setting (Set-SPOSite). Soon you will be able to do this via the new SPO Admin Center as well (which will show group-connected sites). Thanks!
Stephen Rice
OneDrive Program Manager II
- So there is actually no way to do this without the PowerShell?
