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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.
Is this a Beta product, or are people just supposed to know that they should not be using Groups?
Hi Harold.
Try the direct link to the new SP admin center, there you can change this, I just did.
https://yourorg-admin.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/online/AdminHome.aspx#/home
There is also a link in the regular SP admin center to the preview.
Regards
// Thomas
- Sorry, did not read the entire answer...disregard my step by step :-)
Maybe you need to get more info from the users on what happens on their side? I had this working pefectly with an account with just an email today. No Gmail, no MS, no nothing, just a web email account and the links open just fine, the files to.
Good luck!
// T Harold, I can feel your frustration. I felt the same way.
I don't want you to get rid of O365 for that reason...it is so much more than just sharing anonymously…:-) But if you really want to, it's your call. However, I Think your problems will go away now!
It can be done though (If you haven't gotten help yet), this is how and why:
1. Go to the new SP admin again.
2. Select Sites/SIte management3. Search, type in part of the URL or the name of the SP site/Group
4. Click on the sites name in the results pane
5. On the right pane, scroll to the bottom, you will there find 'Sharing status' and 'Change'
(Most likely, it will say 'This site can only be shared with existing external users who sign in', the default setting for an o365 Groups SP Site...regardless of the global sharing setting)
6. Click on 'Change'
7. Change it to: 'Anyone - Users can share files and folders with links that don't require sign-in.'
8. Save - Done!
(The reasong for this seems to be that Groups have a default setting of Existing users only, and this is not reflected anywhere. To share with externals anonymously, you can aslo just create a SP team site and share from there. That will get the Global share setting)
Some illustrations....
Regards
// Thomas
- StephenRice
Microsoft
HI Harold Anderson,
I'm sorry to hear you're having issues. Can you drop me a private message in Tech Community so we can troubleshoot? We absolutely want to get this working for you. Thanks!
Stephen Rice
OneDrive Program Manager II
Thomas,
I navigated to the new SP Admin center. From there, one can click on each Sharepoint site in succession. There is an option in the right-hand Nav bar at the bottom where you can allow sharing to everyone.
Even after changing the setting, however, and testing that the links open in incognito browsers, many of our external vendors are still unable to open links from Sharepoint. I have taken to copying all the content to my personal Dropbox and sending the vendors Dropbox links, which always work. There are serious problems with this, in that other team members cannot modify the files in my personal Dropbox.
The result is that we are seriously considering dropping Office 365 in favor of some other solution that includes an storage solution that actually works the way we need it to. I cannot emphasize strongly enough how deaf Microsoft has been to this issue. Being able to share files externally is one of the most important things about productivity software.
