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Define "Allow only users in specific security group to share externally" for sharepoint sites only
For me this settings does not work. But that might be because I do not know how to combine this option with the overall tenant sharing settings.
For OneDrive our setting is least permissive, we only allow sharing withing our organization.
I would now like for a few users (that are in the same sec.group) to be able to share outside the organisation. But even after enabling the option "Allow only users in specific security group to share externally" it does not work.
Does our global setting need to be changed, to most permissive? And only then will the option "Allow only users in specific security group to share externally" actually serve it's purpose by actually blocking the sharing option for anyone not included in the sec.group
regards
MicrosoftThat's correct. The overall tenant sharing settings must be enabled in order for ANY external sharing to occur. Once they are enabled, every other setting applies further restrictions (such as only allowing the external sharing by specific people). Hope that helps!
Stephen Rice
Senior Product Manager, OneDrive
i have an issue with this setting.
as soon as i enable it, all external sharing is disallowed, even for users that are members of the specified group. If i disable the setting again, external sharing works.
what could be the issue here?
thanks in advance
- Did you get this figured out?
Two things I figured out are that it has to be a 'Mail-Enabled Security Group' and not just a 'Security Group' and also.... these settings seem to take a WHILE to take effect. 20 minutes or more later, no changes seem to be in place.
It's hard to troubleshoot this altogether when the changes are not only ambiguous (Microsoft's documentation completely fails to explain how it works), but they take long periods of time for minor changes to take effect. This is completely impractical.
