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Anonymous

Oct 30, 2019

Solved

Can externally share files OK, but not folders

Posting here as MS Support have not come up with a solution. The scenario is tenant wide and is regarding the Share feature in a standard modern document library. Quite simply, for the same externa...

SharePoint Online

Anonymous
Oct 30, 2019
Solved by MS Support.

In my 19 years of hacking SPS for living I have never touched this setting. The solution is to deactivate the "Limited-access user permission lockdown mode" in the root site collection. This allows for the sharing of folders. Don't ask me why......

Anonymous

Oct 30, 2019

Solved by MS Support.

In my 19 years of hacking SPS for living I have never touched this setting. The solution is to deactivate the "Limited-access user permission lockdown mode" in the root site collection. This allows for the sharing of folders. Don't ask me why......

Andrew Hodges

Bronze Contributor

Oct 30, 2019

HiDeleted ,

That setting is not enabled by default in SharePoint Online, like you I have not touched that setting on many, many tenants.

Andy

Anonymous
Oct 30, 2019
Hi Andrew Hodges - the Limited Use Lockdown mode feature gets enabled if you activate the publishing infrastructure feature.

(We've run into this before because of that.)