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Jun 01, 2017

Sharing a Folder Externally from a SharePoint Site

So I have a requirement to share individual "Project Folders" from a Project Document Library. It seems that you can't Externally Share just the Folder and the extenal user needs access to the Site a...
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Jun 05, 2017

Gregory Frick, thanks for that. It seems to be that when I deactivate the 'Limited-access user permission lockdown mode' I can access the folder without the need to grant the user access to the entire site.

 

StephenRice and Salvatore Biscari is this what should be expected?

 

 

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Salvatore Biscari
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Jun 06, 2017

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Gregory Frickis correct (I liked his answer as requested... :-)) )

For more context see https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3039997/users-can-t-access-a-shared-folder-in-sharepoint-online

cc StephenRice