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Iron Contributor

Jan 07, 2020

New sites not using the defined sharing settings

I have my demo tenant SP settings set to Anyone but when I create a new SP Team site the sharing setting is set to New and existing users (and therefore the Anyone link for end users is greyed out) ...

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MVP

Jan 07, 2020

Yeah, no way to change this behavior, you have to change it after you create these groups. I would like to be able to have it the default to Anyone and restrict if I want, but as of now you have to go bump up the sharing option.

mikkele
Iron Contributor
Jan 08, 2020
So practically the Anyone setting in the SP Admin Center is useless? If this setting is supposed to provide the default for new sites the organisation level...
- Andrew Hodges
  Bronze Contributor
  Jan 08, 2020
  Hi mikkele ,
  
  The purpose of the setting is not to set the default, it is to set what options are available per site.
  
  The default setting is different depending on whether you create an Office 365 Group with the Sharepoint site or not.
  
  Andy
  - mikkele
    Iron Contributor
    Jan 08, 2020
    Andrew Hodges
    The purpose of the setting is not to set the default, it is to set what options are available per site.
    Got it. So if I understand correctly these 4 options should match those that you see on the Sharing panel as end user.
    Does this mean that New and existing users in the Admin settings is the equivalent of Specific People for end users?
    Out of the 4, this is the one that doesn't match in the name at all
    
    The default setting is different depending on whether you create an Office 365 Group with the Sharepoint site or not.
    Can you give an example on this? where do you find other default sharing settings outside of SP/OneDrive?

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