OneDrive for Business Sharing Permissions Issue

We recently started using OneDrive for Business. Yesterday employee A shared a file with employee B using the "specific person" choice from the drop-down. Employee B was given edit permissions. Emplo...

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Anonymous
Feb 14, 2018
This would help you:

-ODBMembersCanShare
Lets administrators set policy on re-sharing behavior in OneDrive for Business.
Values:
On- Users with edit permissions can re-share.
Off- Only OneDrive for Business owner can share. The value of ODBAccessRequests defines whether a request to share gets sent to the owner.
Unspecified- Let each OneDrive for Business owner enable or disable re-sharing behavior on their OneDrive.

REF: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/sharepoint-online/set-spotenant?view=sharepoint-ps

Salvatore Biscari

Silver Contributor

Feb 14, 2018

Yes, this is how it works.

Also, you can completely disable resharing, if you want.

For an exhaustive discussion see https://www.sharepointusecases.com/2014/11/managing-sharing-access-requests-sharepoint-site/

Jessica Brennan

Brass Contributor

Feb 15, 2018

Thank you so much! This resolved issues for a couple people very quick and gave me an excellent resource for an "exhaustive discussion" about sharing and permissions. I appreciate your quick response.

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