Managing External Sharing in SharePoint Online
April 23, 2014 1 Comment
A question I frequently hear from clients when moving to Office 365 and SharePoint online, is how can I manage external sharing?
Maybe an organization does not want to allow content to be shared with external users, or allow users direct access to documents without first having an account and logging in. There are many different situations and requirements which may need to have the external sharing settings tweaked.
To do so, go into your SharePoint Online Admin Center
and select Settings from the left-side navigation
And then once there (and currently it is the second header down on the right side of the screen), choose one of the options which firs your requirements.
- Don’t allow sharing outside your organization
- Allow external users who accept sharing invitations and sign in as authenticated users
- Allow both external users who accept sharing invitations and anonymous guest links
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Geoff,
I have a particular use case where we want about 300 clients to upload documents to us, but each client must only have access to what they’ve uploaded. Is that beyond the scope of the external sharing functionality?