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Iron Contributor

Jan 12, 2018

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Prevent resharing of OneNote files

I feel like maybe I'm missing something obvious, but is there any setting in OneNote or OneDrive/SharePoint that can prevent the re-sharing of files. It seems odd that this is the default behavior. ...

Karen Falandays
Jan 14, 2018
To add to Salvatore's post, if you give read access, the user can not share with others. To be safe, the owner should check sharing permissions often on a shared notebook

Salvatore Biscari

Silver Contributor

Jan 13, 2018

Hi Luke Hoffman

Generally speaking, SharePoint (as the name implies...) is geared towards sharing, rather than preventing it. Nevertheless, it is indeed possible to prevent resharing at a global level. See http://www.sharepointusecases.com/2014/11/managing-sharing-access-requests-sharepoint-site/

However, OneNote sharing does not use the general sharing mechanism, meaning that OneNote items are not shared as files. OneNote uses, instead, its own "internal" sharing mechanism, which is independent of the general SharePoint sharing mechanism, and, AFAIK, OneNote has not an option to prevent resharing.