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roniy
Brass Contributor
Jul 20, 2020

"Everyone except external users" has read permission on many personal OD sites

Hi,   We noticed that the group "Everyone except external users" has read permission on many personal OD sites. The permission appears to be on the site level (not a specific file or folder). Howe...
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roniy
Brass Contributor
Jul 20, 2020

Thanks Steven Andrews!

It's not in the visitors group.

So you're saying it must be a result of sharing?

 

I still wonder why I (an internal user) don't have access while the group is there:

 

 

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VasilMichev
MVP
Jul 20, 2020

That's probably a remnant from back in the day where we had the "shared with everyone" folder. You can still provision that via the ProvisionSharedWithEveryoneFolder switch, but it's no longer enabled by default afaik.

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    roniy
    Brass Contributor
    Jul 20, 2020

    Thank you VasilMichev!

     

    So this permission is still there but doesn't grant actual access? 

    I there an easy way to clean it from all personal sites? 

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    Steven Andrews
    Iron Contributor
    Jul 20, 2020

    VasilMichev That's a very good tip.  I'd forgotten about this.  

     

    roniy  More information on this one here, this was a change back in 2015 I think.  I wasn't able to find the Technet article but this should help out.

    https://www.markwilson.co.uk/blog/2015/10/restore-the-shared-with-everyone-folder-in-onedrive-for-business.htm

     

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