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External Sharing - SharePoint
1. When External Sharing is turned on at tenant level and restricted for certain site collections, does a newly site collection by default have external sharing turned on ?
2. Do we need to specifically turn off external sharing for tenant-my.sharepoint.com site collection to disable external sharing on onedrive, or this can be achieved at the admin center of onedrive sharing page.
Sai Gutta It's all based on the sharing options and Onedrive is the minimum that will apply to SharePoint etc. So you have to disable per site collection if you have it enabled in OneDrive and so on.
Excert from: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/manage-sharing
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The external sharing setting for SharePoint can be more permissive than what you allow in OneDrive, but not less permissive. If you turn off external sharing for SharePoint in your organization, you can't turn it on for OneDrive.
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If you want to allow external file sharing on any sites, you need to turn it on globally (at the organization level). You can then turn it off for all other sites.
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If you turn off external sharing, any links shared externally will stop working. If you later turn it back on, the links will resume working.
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Sai Gutta It's all based on the sharing options and Onedrive is the minimum that will apply to SharePoint etc. So you have to disable per site collection if you have it enabled in OneDrive and so on.
Excert from: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/manage-sharing
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The external sharing setting for SharePoint can be more permissive than what you allow in OneDrive, but not less permissive. If you turn off external sharing for SharePoint in your organization, you can't turn it on for OneDrive.
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If you want to allow external file sharing on any sites, you need to turn it on globally (at the organization level). You can then turn it off for all other sites.
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If you turn off external sharing, any links shared externally will stop working. If you later turn it back on, the links will resume working.
ChrisWebbTech - What about newly created site collections will they automatically have external sharing turned on, because the tenant has it turned on ?
- Yes but usually anonymous links you still have to allow. It will usually on one step below your setting from my experience. If you allow max setting of allow to get anyone can use links still have to set those.
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