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Lloyd Adams
Iron Contributor
Nov 02, 2018

OneDrive External Sharing Override

If I look at the OneDrive Settings in the admin centre for a particular user, have the option to enable/disable external sharing for that individual.  Does external sharing need to be enabled globally for this option to have any effect?  Or can it be used to override a global off setting, and enable external sharing for just one individual?  If I try and turn it on, I get the error message 'Update failed for OneDrive external sharing setting'. 

(For info, the account being used is a global admin, but not a SharePoint admin.)

 

 

  • I want to say your sharepoint slider has to to up to external allowed and then you can override but leave OneDrive down as that’s a global setting that will effect all users. With the sharepoint one up by default shareoint won’t turn external on and you have to do per site. But let me verify in test tenant.
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      Lloyd Adams
      Iron Contributor

      That's the way we have it - SharePoint most permissive, OneDrive least permissive, and SharePoint sharing turned off for all sites.

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        Lloyd Adams
        Iron Contributor

        Any other guidance available anywhere that might shed some light on this for me?

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