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Iron Contributor

Apr 07, 2017

Default Sharing for SharePoint Team Sites

By default, an O365 Group provisions a SP Team Site with "Allow sharing only with the external users that already exist in your organization's directory". How can we modify the default SharingCap...

Office 365 Groups

Drew Madelung

MVP

Apr 13, 2017

Are you looking to have the ability or control external sharing specifically at the site level vs the external sharing of the Group itself?

Salvatore Biscari

Silver Contributor

Apr 13, 2017

Not sure what you mean... Can you please elaborate a bit?

KerryLambert
Iron Contributor
Apr 13, 2017
Create an Office 365 Group. Do a Get-SPOSite on your group and take note of the SharingCapability.

Check this link for O365 Groups - https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Turn-external-sharing-on-or-off-for-SharePoint-Online-6288296a-b6b7-4ea4-b4ed-c297bf833e30#ID0EAABAAA=Office_365_Groups

It says, By default, all SharePoint site collections that are part of an Office 365 Group have the sharing setting set to Allow sharing only with the external users that already exist in your organization’s directory. To change this setting, you can use the Set-SPOSite Windows PowerShell cmdlet.

I am asking Microsoft for the ability to change this default setting and not have to follow up with scheduled powershell scripts to modify this after creation.
- Salvatore Biscari
  Silver Contributor
  Apr 13, 2017
  Understood and agreed!