Upcoming change:Updating default sharing setting for Office 365 Group connected SPO site collections

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Tejas Mehta wrote:

[..] Currently, the default sharing setting for these site collections is to allow sharing with external users already in your organization's directory.

 

Since Office 365 Groups allow for guest members by default, we heard feedback from many customers that it was odd to allow for the addition of external guests as group members but not allow for external sharing of SharePoint resources.

 

Based on your feedback, we are updating the external sharing setting to allow sharing with authenticated external users. [..]

 

 

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I am totally not getting it. Quoted above (emphasis mine):

You say that by default it is already set to allow sharing with external users. Then you say that it is odd that it doesn't allow sharing. And then you are updating the setting to allow sharing with external users!!

Am I missing something entirely here?