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Verification setting for external share links?
I'm trying to find settings that control account verification with the newest Team/Group style Sharepoint sites in Office365. Right now when I share a file with "only the people you specify" it requires the external user to input a new verification code literally every single time they access the file. This is more than a little annoying.
All I've been able to find for documentation is this blog post that claims there's a setting to control this behavior in the Sharing section of Sharepoint Admin Center. When I go into Sharepoint Admin Center it does not actually have any such setting. Where can I find setting(s) to dial this functionality back to a more reasonable periodic re-verification?
- Ah, sorry, I missed it. The Days box doesn't appear unless the option is checked. Leaving it unchecked seems as if it still requires continual proof of account ownership. I was hoping I could set it "verify once and never re-verify" but that doesn't appear possible so I guess I'm back to trying to figure out how to re-enable anonymous sharing on the new-style sites.
They have a checkbox to not prompt for code again when they input the code, this puts a 30 day cookie on the machine or whatever.
As for anonymous sharing on Group sites, you have to download SharePoint Online Managment shell.
connect-sposervice
tenant URL so tenant-admin.sharepoint.com don't forget -admin
get your group site URL and use it for this command:
Set-SPOSite "url" -SharingCapability ExternalUserAndGuestSharing
That will turn on Guest sharing on Group connected sites.
