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External Sharing Policy change all existing sites
One of my customers recently enabled external sharing at the tenant level, and almost all of the existing sites are now showing "This site can be shared with new and existing external users who sign in". We were expecting that each site would have remained "This site can’t be shared with external users" until we specifically change the setting on a site by site basis.
Has anyone else seen this behavior? Was there a change in functionality deployed by Microsoft that I missed?
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- It’s always been that way. The sharing will go to “specific users” if you want anonymous links thou you have to explicitly set it per site but all sites not manually set will go up to specific users.
Ok, thanks. I guess now we have to go turn it off on a bunch of sites, ugh.
ChrisWebbTechi have done some more investigation and I'm not seeing consistent behavior, there are some group enabled sites that were not changes and many that did change. Any idea why that would have happened?
- Some were manually changed at some point and others not? Possible that one of the site template types, (Group, Team etc.) may have this property explicitly set. The problem is it's really hard to tell because they all say what they are and don't really tell you if it inherits or not from what I'm finding.
