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escupham
Mar 01, 2017Steel Contributor
Groups Guest access and SharePoint access
Looking to confirm my understanding. If you add a guest to an O365 from OWA, they will only have access to the associated SharePoint site if external sharing for that site has been turned on (or if ...
Sahil Arora
Microsoft
Mar 20, 2017Thanks guys for the feedback! Couple of things, we have been working internally to rationalize this settings & this is the plan of record as of now.
1. By-default Groups have guest access enabled & the corresponding team site as well.
2. Currently by default files cannot be shared with new guests unless they are member group. We are planning to *change* this default with full guest access enabled, so that you can share indivudal files with new guest users through SPO.
3. The way we want SPO settings & Groups settings for short-term is to be decoupled with the right messaging in the admin portal so that admins are clearly aware of what do they need to do to fully disable guest access.
Salvatore Biscari
Mar 20, 2017Silver Contributor
Thanks Sahil.
About #2, my understanding is that today, by default, files can be shared with all existing external users, and not only with group members. Am I wrong?