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Silver Contributor

Nov 30, 2018

External Sharing Policy change all existing sites

One of my customers recently enabled external sharing at the tenant level, and almost all of the existing sites are now showing "This site can be shared with new and existing external users who sign ...

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MVP

Nov 30, 2018

It’s always been that way. The sharing will go to “specific users” if you want anonymous links thou you have to explicitly set it per site but all sites not manually set will go up to specific users.

Dean_Gross
Silver Contributor
Nov 30, 2018
Ok, thanks. I guess now we have to go turn it off on a bunch of sites, ugh.

ChrisWebbTechi have done some more investigation and I'm not seeing consistent behavior, there are some group enabled sites that were not changes and many that did change. Any idea why that would have happened?
- ChrisWebbTech
  MVP
  Nov 30, 2018
  Some were manually changed at some point and others not? Possible that one of the site template types, (Group, Team etc.) may have this property explicitly set. The problem is it's really hard to tell because they all say what they are and don't really tell you if it inherits or not from what I'm finding.
  - StephenRice
    Microsoft
    Dec 03, 2018
    ChrisWebbTech is correct. An example:
    
    1) Tenant is set to allow anyone links. Site is set to allow anyone links.
    
    2) Tenat is restricted to authenticated sharing only. By policy, site can now only offer authenticated sharing too (and so will show up as such in admin UI) even though it's saved value is "anyone" links.
    
    3) Tenant is set to allow anyone links again. Site now allows anyone links again (because it's value never changed).
    
    Hope that helps!
    
    Stephen Rice
    
    OneDrive Program Manager II

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