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Stephan Swinford
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Jul 05, 2017

Anonymous Sharing not working with Communication sites

We're starting to roll out some Communication sites, however it looks like it is currently impossible to enable Anonymous sharing links: I get the following error when I try to set anonymous sha...
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Stephan Swinford's avatar
Stephan Swinford
Iron Contributor
Jul 06, 2017
VasilMichev wrote:

I dont yet have Communication sites in my tenant, but that looks like the Group/Team site sharing dialog. If it follows the same logic, then it's indeed by design.

With the previous Group/Team sites, I could run that PowerShell command against them to enable anonymous sharing. I verified that it still works for Group sites after getting the above error for the Communication site.

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Salvatore Biscari
Silver Contributor
Jul 06, 2017

Stephan Swinford

I don't have Communication Sites yet, but, out of curiosity: are they listed in SPO admin center, like classic team sites,, or not, like modern team sites?

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    Stephan Swinford
    Iron Contributor
    Jul 06, 2017

    They are like modern sites and are not listed in Admin, so any management needs to be done via PowerShell.

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      Salvatore Biscari
      Silver Contributor
      Jul 06, 2017

      Thanks.

      Just another question: what is the (default) SharingCapability reported by get-sposite?

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        Stephan Swinford
        Iron Contributor
        Jul 06, 2017
        Salvatore Biscari wrote:

        Thanks.

        Just another question: what is the (default) SharingCapability reported by get-sposite?

        Disabled.

        Attempting to set it to either ExternalUserSharingOnly or ExternalUserAndGuestSharing results in the error above.

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