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Restrict Sharepoint access for external Teams Channel Guest
Dear Teams-Enthusiasts,
is it possible to restrict Sharepoint access for external Teams Channel Guests to specific folders?
For example:
- We have a private Teams channel with folders named:
- Public
- Private
- When I invite a guest from outside our organisation he is able to see and access both folders on the Sharepoint
- He should only be able to see and access the folder "Public"
Any Ideas how to implement this?
- Yes,you could do that by breaking permissions inheritance at the SPO level but then you are governing access to that folders using SPO Security Model and not the Teams Membership what can be problematic
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- I'd not mess with breaking inheritance, but rather just create an extra private channel.
- Yes,you could do that by breaking permissions inheritance at the SPO level but then you are governing access to that folders using SPO Security Model and not the Teams Membership what can be problematic
- jcgonzalezmartin is right here. You would go to files > open in SharePoint, select the folder and then via access settings > the advanced settings break the inheritance and remove guest permissions.
As Juan Carlos says, this means more manual effort, there is no real oversight so you would need to track what changes you have done, then it can get confusing the more folders you add. It would go back to the old permissions headache you used to get with on premise file servers
An alternative option would be to create two channels - a standard channel and a private channel and do it that way. Standard channel, anyone can see folders. Private channel only invited members can see, and the private folder is stored in a seperate site collection away from any other users which can't be accessed by anyone except who you have invited to it
Hope that helps
Best, Chris
