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