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Have you permitted external sharing per these instructions at the tenant level - https://support.office.com/en-US/article/Turn-external-sharing-on-or-off-for-SharePoint-Online-6288296a-b6b7-4ea4-b4ed-c297bf833e30#ID0EAABAAA:
Yes....
In my dev tenant with the same settings as you in that screenshot, I can share files with anyone with an anonymous link from a standard document library. With an Office 365 Group, this didn't work, I got the greyed out Anyone option that you posted earlier but I see now that's explained in the link on my last post and can be changed:
"By default, all SharePoint site collections that are part of an Office 365 Group have the sharing setting set to Allow sharing only with the external users that already exist in your organization’s directory."
Im not sure what this means. Can you clarify? What group are you referring to? How do we fix this so we can share anonoymous links?
I probably wasn't very clear and it's just what I have observed but a team site that is part of an Office 365 Group, has more restrictive sharing by default (in my dev tenant at least). This is explained in that Turn external sharing on or off for SharePoint Online link and the https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/Turn-external-sharing-on-or-off-for-SharePoint-Online-6288296a-b6b7-4ea4-b4ed-c297bf833e30#ID0EAABAAA=Office_365_Groups:
"By default, all SharePoint site collections that are part of an Office 365 Group have the sharing setting set to Allow sharing only with the external users that already exist in your organization’s directory. To change this setting, you can use the Set-SPOSite Windows PowerShell cmdlet."
The PowerShell would be something like this, assuming there isn't an easier way to do this -
Set-SPOSite -Identity https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/site1 -SharingCapability ExternalUserAndGuestSharing
Document LibraryOffice 365 Based Team Site
Again I am not sure if this is relevant but its what I have noticed.