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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.
Hi There
But what about the setting of O365 Groups?
Probably has to be PS command, the group sites aren't listened in the SP admin side of things..
Ideas?
Thanks
No need to use Powershell. I avoid Powershell at all costs, so do this instead.
Sharepoint allows control of whether a site allows anonymous access links at two levels: the tenant level and the site level.
Step 1:Go to Sharepoint Admin portal. Select the "Sharing" in the left column and be sure to enable "Allow sharing to authenticated external users and using anonymous access links". Read through the rest of the tenant level sharing settings and set a standard for your community going forward.
Step 2:
Now you need to make sure sharing at the site level has been updated. Go to your "site collections" in the Sharepoin Admin portal. Check the box next to the site collection you want to verify. Then select "Sharing" on the TOP RIBBON (not the same "sharing" link as step 1). You are now viewing the Site level Sharing Settings. Update the sharing settings to your desired level for this site.
Now you know how to modify sharing settings at the TENANT and SITE levels.
Can this be done without the powershell? It seems kind of overkill to have to do it that way.
This worked great for accessing the files through Office365! Now when a file is attached to an email in Office 365 from the Group library, the sender can select from:
"Recipients can edit/view, Anyone in my organization can edit/view, Anyone can view"
My issue is now that I can't do the same from Outlook 2016. When I attach a file (from the same library), the sender can only select from:
"Organization can Edit / View" and "Recipient can Edit / View"
Any ideas/suggestions?
Thank you for this. It helped me in enabling the Anyone portion in our Team Sites document libraries.
Just to add, I tried that PowerShell and it did enable anonymous sharing for me in my Office 365 Groups based team site:
In my previous post you can see 'anyone' was greyed out but now it's enabled:
