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Brass Contributor

Jan 23, 2017

New Folder Auto Shares with Everyone

Whenever I create a new folder in OD4B (Web version using Edge) it automatically share it with 'Everyone' in 'edit' mode no less and I have to 'un-share' it. What am I missing? This is not expected b...

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Salvatore Biscari
Jan 23, 2017
BTW, the default for the ODfB doclib is to have no explicit permissions at all.

Salvatore Biscari

Silver Contributor

Do you create such folders inside other folders that are already shared with Everyone, perhaps?

Mark Uvanni

Brass Contributor

Jan 23, 2017

I think I just figured out why. It's inheriting the permissions from SPO (we use external sharing) and the Group 'Everyone' is set to contribute. Probably not good ha?

Salvatore Biscari
Silver Contributor
Jan 23, 2017
AFAIK, ODfB does not inherit permissions from other SPO site collections.
Have you modified the ODfB document library permissions, instead?
- Mark Uvanni
  Brass Contributor
  Jan 23, 2017
  I see and yes, I believe a contractor did. He apparently have 'Everyone' contributor permissions to docs libs when we really wanted each internal functional group (Acct. IT. HR., etc.) to have contribute permissions.
  - Salvatore Biscari
    Silver Contributor
    Jan 23, 2017
    It's not clear to me why you could want to have 'Everyone' contributor permissions to your personal ODfB doclib, which should be used only for your personal files, maybe with some temporary item sharing with other users...
    Anyway, go to the permissions for your ODfB doclib and delete the Everyone group from there: this should solve the problem.