I want to restrict anonymous links to specified domains

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We have disabled anonymous sharing in our SharePoint Online tenant. However, we would like to allow anonymous sharing in specific domains to avoid having users sign in to mulitple platforms to access information. Is there a way to do this or are their any plans to add this feature?

jcgonzalezmartin · Answer

You can already configure in the SPO Admin Center what domains are allowed or not when sharing files externally

lianajohnson · Answer

Yes, but I think what I want to do is more nuanced. We have already restricted anonymous sharing. But we do want to allow anonymous sharing on specific domains and authenticated sharing should be open to all domains. Is that possible?

stephenrice · Answer

Hi&nbsp;LianaJohnson,
&nbsp;
Can you clarify a little on what you are hoping to achieve? Are you hoping to allow only certain users to share anonymously? Or is it something different? Thanks!
&nbsp;
Stephen Rice
OneDrive PRogram Manager II

lianajohnson · Answer

I want anonymous links to only work in specific domains (ie. blackboard). Basically, when a link is shared now, our users have to first login to blackboard and then login to SharePoint to access a document, which is burdensome for people to have to login to multiple platforms to access information. However, we do not want anonymous links to work in other non-authenticated places. For example, I do not want to be able to use an anonymous link on a public website.&nbsp;&nbsp;From my understanding, we can only specific user domain (ie. someone's work email), but we cannot specific web domains.&nbsp;

stephenrice · Answer

Hi Liana,
&nbsp;
Thanks for clarifying. Unfortunately, this is not a feature we support today and is not in the roadmap of improvements. Thanks!
&nbsp;
Stephen Rice
OneDrive Program Manager II

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