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External Sharing
The behavior you are looking for is easily implemented going to the OneDrive Admin Center and configure the defaults for your tenant as in the following screenshot (for example):
Now, when you share an item, the default will be to share it as an anonymous read-only link, which can be used by everyone immediately, without authentication.
The default can be overridden case by case and it will also be possible to set an expiration.
Moreover you will be able to revoke the link in every moment using the details pane in the doc library.
If I have well understood, this is exactly what you are asking.
Hope it helps...
First: Thank you! That is exactly what we are looking for!
Second:
At the risk of sounding dumb.... Does that apply for sharepoint sharing as well? If it is changed in the OneDrive Admin settings will it affect our sharepoint files as well?
I assume it does because you mentioned libraries....
Sorry to disagree this time with Dean_Gross :-), but yes, the setting applies both to ODfB and SharePoint doc libraries, as you can easily verify.
Be aware that, for it to work, anonymous sharing must be enabled both at tenant level and at the single site collection level (which can be done in the UI). For Groups site collections, instead, it can be enabled only by PowerShell (at the moment).
Thanks for the correction. I was thinking about the external sharing setting for OneDrive can be more restrictive than what's allowed for SharePoint Online, but not less restrictive and I thought that the controls in the OD admin center were only for OD, but in this case the settings changes apply to both types of SP sites.
Here is the official documentation, https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Manage-external-sharing-ee8b91c5-05ec-44c2-9796-78fa27ec8425
- The setting shown by @Salvatore is for OneDrive only.
