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New sites not using the defined sharing settings
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...
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
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?
Hi mikkele,
Got it. So if I understand correctly these 4 options should match those that you see on the Sharing panel as end user.
The settings there dont match but you are correct in that if you remove the "Anyone" from the Tenant Sharing settings or do not have it set on the Site Collection then the "Anyone" is removed from the Link settings.
Does this mean that New and existing users in the Admin settings is the equivalent of Specific People for end users?
Its not the same but affects the functionality of the Specific People. If you do not have New and existing users selected at the Tenant and Site level then you cannot add external users using this option but you will still be able to add internal users.
Can you give an example on this? where do you find other default sharing settings outside of SP/OneDrive?
When you create a new SharePoint site there are 3 options, on the first Screen. Team site, Communication site and Other Options. The first 2 create an Office 365 Group which contains a SharePoint site, when you do this the setting that is selected as soon as the SharePoint site is created is New and Existing Users. If you select Other options and "Team Site" (which I use most of the time) the selected option when the site is created is "No Sharing".
Hard to explain over a forum, needless to say External Sharing can have a design all of its own and I am doing just that for a couple of orgs, there are plenty more settings too.
