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Limit Sharing of specific folders in SharePoint Online?
Is it possible to limit the external sharing of a SharePoint folder with external / guest users? For example, let's say we have a SharePoint site called Marketing. Marketing documents can be shar...
- I am not so sure if you can configure sharing settings on a folder.
I personally would not do that and just create another SharePoint site, call it "Confidential" and limit the sharing setting for that site.
That way it would also be much, much easier for your users to determine, why they cannot share a file from that location.
Many other SharePoint policies like i.e "Sensitivity Labels" are also only really applicable to sites. (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/sensitivity-labels-teams-groups-sites?view=o365-worldwide)
I am not so sure if you can configure sharing settings on a folder.
I personally would not do that and just create another SharePoint site, call it "Confidential" and limit the sharing setting for that site.
That way it would also be much, much easier for your users to determine, why they cannot share a file from that location.
Many other SharePoint policies like i.e "Sensitivity Labels" are also only really applicable to sites. (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/sensitivity-labels-teams-groups-sites?view=o365-worldwide)
I personally would not do that and just create another SharePoint site, call it "Confidential" and limit the sharing setting for that site.
That way it would also be much, much easier for your users to determine, why they cannot share a file from that location.
Many other SharePoint policies like i.e "Sensitivity Labels" are also only really applicable to sites. (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/sensitivity-labels-teams-groups-sites?view=o365-worldwide)