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External Sharing Issue
Microsoft
In the classic SharePoint Admin Center, there is a setting that allows you to restrict anonymous sharing to only users in a selected security group. Can you share anonymously from other sites or is it just your ODB? If it's the former, then that setting is probably on.
Stephen Rice
OneDrive Program Manager II
I checked that setting and it is not restricting by group. I was able to create a brand new site collection and then enable external sharing on it and my account can create anonymous links, so there is that which was a mistake originally.
It seems to be restricted to my OneDrive only. What is really odd is that I pulled the OneDrive settings via PowerShell for my OneDrive and for another account that can share Externally and they match perfectly.
SharingCapability : ExternalUserAndGuestSharing
SiteDefinedSharingCapability : ExternalUserAndGuestSharing
DisableCompanyWideSharingLinks : NotDisabled
SharingDomainRestrictionMode : None
SharingAllowedDomainList :
SharingBlockedDomainList :
ConditionalAccessPolicy : AllowFullAccess
DefaultSharingLinkType : None
DefaultLinkPermission : None
These settings are the same for both OneDrives. Really odd.
- OK, figured out the issue. It was actually that the file had a Label applied to it, that prevented external sharing. Alas, it wasn't easily apparent from the web interface that the label was applied. Probably need to add that.
- StephenRice
Thanks David Broussard, glad you figured it out! I'll make sure to pass the feedback along to the team. Thanks!
Stephen Rice
OneDrive Program Manager II