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Allow creation of guest links for specific users only
AFAIK you can't.
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...
thxIf 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.
I don't particularly like this solution, as I am having to then remember to turn off guest-sharing for each new person that is created, which can be easy to forget. But I suppose it is a method it could work, since a regular user would not be able to connect to PowerShell to turn it back on, unless there is another way for that to happen, because as Salvatore points out, a user would be a SCA of his/her own ODFB SC.
