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We have a need for uploading confidential files from external users (guests) to a central location. They should not be able to view the files uploaded by other users, i.e., only the owner (uploader) w...
- Many thanks, John and Dean. I'll look into these.
We have a DropOff library in SharePoint and a rule can be written in to move the uploaded document to desired library. Alternatively, we can create view with filter set as created by is equal [ME] to avoid users to see other’s content.
- I tried most of these solutions and ended up using the approach first suggested by Nitesh. I used Flow to move the file and also generate a customized email notification. Many thanks to all.
- That's great, Nitesh. I'm new to SharePoint. Can you describe these in more detail or point me to a source of information? Thanks very much for your response.
KenStewartThe DropOff library is a feature that is associated with the Content Organizer, see https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Configure-the-Content-Organizer-to-route-documents-B0875658-69BC-4F48-ADDB-E3C5F01F2D9A for some instructions.
The one key trick to making this work is to enable external sharing for the site so that all of the guests have access.
- This method isn’t easy and requires everyone to have an account and access to your SharePoint. It’s nothing like Dropbox where you just toss out a link and collect data. OneDrive announced at SPC that they will be launching the same functionality in the near future but that won’t do you any good now
Depending how many people you have you can use the above method but you’ll have to get them all invited to your site etc. and it’s security by obscurity.
I would recommend item level security. But again everyone will have to be invited to your SharePoint site a certain way since I think this might only work with lists.
Anyway here that is. https://sharepointmaven.com/how-to-enable-item-level-permissions-in-sharepoint/
How many people would need to be uploading?- Thanks, Chris and Juan. We intend to invite or otherwise restrict by group about 25 employees who work externally on government systems and do not require licenses for our O365 E3 tenant. They will access this folder for the long term, so it's not an undue investment to configure them individually. This approach is also governed by our security posture in satisfying Department of Defense DFARS/NIST requirements. In general, we do not want to allow public access to SharePoint or other cloud resources. We'd also like to determine if an O365 group would be suitable for our purposes or if an Azure AD group would be more appropriate.
