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Tonje Waasjø's avatar
Tonje Waasjø
Brass Contributor
Apr 14, 2020
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It it possible to turn on sharing "Anyone with the link" for a site?

I would like to turn on the opportunity to turn on the sharing option "Anyone with the link" for just one or two sitecollections without having to do anything with the rest of the sites/OneDrives on the tenant. Is that possible?

  • Andrew Hodges's avatar
    Andrew Hodges
    Apr 14, 2020

    Tonje Waasjø 

     

    No they won't. You may want to check newly created site collections though, the default depends on whether the site collection was created with an Office 365 account or without. From memory my testing showed no external sharing when no Office 365 group created but set to "New and existing users" when a group was created. The second may depend on what default setting you have at the tenant. 

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  • Andrew Hodges's avatar
    Andrew Hodges
    Bronze Contributor

    Tonje Waasjø 

     

    Anonymous access can be turned on per site collection in the SharePoint Admin centre as long as this setting as been set at the tenant level. If its off for the whole tenant then it is not possible to turn it on for any site collections. 

    • Tonje Waasjø's avatar
      Tonje Waasjø
      Brass Contributor

      Thanks for the quick reply Andrew Hodges. But if I turn it on now, will all the excisisting site collections then have it turned on? 

      • Andrew Hodges's avatar
        Andrew Hodges
        Bronze Contributor

        Tonje Waasjø 

         

        No they won't. You may want to check newly created site collections though, the default depends on whether the site collection was created with an Office 365 account or without. From memory my testing showed no external sharing when no Office 365 group created but set to "New and existing users" when a group was created. The second may depend on what default setting you have at the tenant.