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Robert Lien
Mar 06, 2017Brass Contributor
Allow creation of guest links for specific users only
Hi, How can I allow the use of guest link only for specific users in an organization? thx
Salvatore Biscari
Mar 06, 2017Silver Contributor
AFAIK you can't.
- Mar 06, 2017Salvatore is correct...you can only configure the link type at the tenant level what means this is a global feature
- Robert LienMar 07, 2017Brass Contributor
I would expand on that. The setting does have to be set at the global level yes, but then its also set at the individual site collections (Sharepoint site collections, meaning I can have the global setting on, while having other site collections disabled).
Also I believe each users OneDrive is its own site collection, even though somehow the settings for User's guest links, is one setting for all users's OneDrive??
I hope this feature becomese available soon, to where we can control guest links for only specific users, not all users or no users...
thx- VasilMichevMar 07, 2017MVP
If we are talking about ODFB here, it should indeed be possible as you can now control the sharing options per SC. However, the "allow guests" setting is "less restrictive", and the per-SC permissions can only be "more restrictive". Thus you take to do it the other way around - configure ExternalUserAndGuestSharing at the Global level and then switch Guest sharing off for everyone apart the user(s) you want to be able to use this.
That's assuming you only want to give them permissions to share files in their own ODFB.