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Matt Weston's avatar
Matt Weston
Brass Contributor
May 24, 2018

Site Collection Admin Approval of Sharing

Please feel free to tell me that I'm going mad or I've dreamt it, but was there previously an option in SharePoint online to include an admin approval of any sharing requests going out for a given si...
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Salvatore Biscari's avatar
Salvatore Biscari
Silver Contributor
May 24, 2018

Are you speaking of Access Requests?

See https://support.office.com/en-us/article/set-up-and-manage-access-requests-94b26e0b-2822-49d4-929a-8455698654b3

Matt Weston's avatar
Matt Weston
Brass Contributor
May 24, 2018

Thanks for your reply Salvatore.

 

I think it may have been my interpretation of this page that has made me question the configuration options here. If I uncheck both "Allow members to invite others to the site members group" AND "Allow members to share the site and individual files and folders", do you believe the expected behaviour is for members to still share, but for a notification be sent to the Team Site Owners that something has been shared?

  • Salvatore Biscari's avatar
    Salvatore Biscari
    Silver Contributor
    May 24, 2018

    When you uncheck "Allow members to share the site and individual files and folders", also "Allow members to invite others to the site members group" will be automatically unchecked.

    In such case, members will not be able to share at all.

    If "Allow access requests" is checked, access requests will still be generated when someone requests to access the site resources without having permissions.

     

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      Matt Weston
      Brass Contributor
      May 24, 2018

      Ok so that's my expectation. The scenario that I have at the moment is that I want a member to share content with an external user (which can be done by checking the box), however I want the admin/owner to approve that before it goes.

       

      Now I'm sure that this used to be an option, or am I completely wrong?