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Brass Contributor

Aug 14, 2018

Solved

Access Denied when sharing folders

We have been using Sharepoint365 for projects and have different folders shared with vendors for some time, but now all our external users are getting "Access Denied" when trying to access the folder...

Lars Bo Wassini
Aug 21, 2018
Ok! I found the problem! Well... Actually Microsoft Support helped me with this.
It seems that another part of our organization indeed had changed the setting without telling us in IT.

Solution:
In the "Site setting", "Site Collection Administration", "Site collection features" the "Limited-access user permission lockdown mode" must NOT be activated.
This setting is automatically activated when the "SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure" feature is activated.

Lars Bo Wassini

Brass Contributor

Aug 21, 2018

Ok! I found the problem! Well... Actually Microsoft Support helped me with this.

It seems that another part of our organization indeed had changed the setting without telling us in IT.

Solution:

In the "Site setting", "Site Collection Administration", "Site collection features" the "Limited-access user permission lockdown mode" must NOT be activated.

This setting is automatically activated when the "SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure" feature is activated.

PBeiler1

Iron Contributor

Aug 17, 2021

Nice. This solved my issue. I was unable to share-externally on any new SPO site I was creating as a standalone (non team site). I encountered this starting about summer of 2018 and never resolved it. My old sites still worked, so just used them. Now we can start externally-sharing on new sites. Life is good! Yea!