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SPO - External Sharing options
Hi am looking for some advice on how to best structure external sharing within the company. By default external sharing is off, but there is a need to share externally now. can i break individ...
In my experience, the best approach is to configure sharing policies for specific sites that require external sharing. For example, I probably don't want people to share directly from a department site, but it might be allowed for some project sites.
The problem with allowing people to share from sites that are defaulted to no-external sharing, is it becomes difficult to manage. If someone shares a folder instead of a file for example, it could lead to other issues.
You can use Site Sensitivity to configure the default sharing link types also.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/sensitivity-labels-default-sharing-link?WT.mc_id=M365-MVP-5002378&view=o365-worldwide
The problem with allowing people to share from sites that are defaulted to no-external sharing, is it becomes difficult to manage. If someone shares a folder instead of a file for example, it could lead to other issues.
You can use Site Sensitivity to configure the default sharing link types also.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/sensitivity-labels-default-sharing-link?WT.mc_id=M365-MVP-5002378&view=o365-worldwide