Product documentation (sharing settings) — Microsoft OneDrive for Business

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• Organization level sharing Report an error

  “As a SharePoint Administrator in Microsoft 365, you can change the organization-level sharing settings for SharePoint and OneDrive. These settings control sharing at the organization level. You can configure more restrictive settings for specific sites if needed.”

• Entra b2b models Report an error

  “SharePoint and OneDrive use two external sharing models: SharePoint external authentication SharePoint and OneDrive integration with Microsoft Entra B2B”

• Anyone sharing option Report an error

  “Anyone Allow users to share files and folders by using links that anyone who has the link can access the files or folders without authenticating.”

• New existing guests option Report an error

  “New and existing guests Require people who receive invitations to sign in with their work or school account (if their organization uses Microsoft 365) or a Microsoft account, or to provide a code to verify their identity.”

• Existing guests option Report an error

  “Existing guests Allow sharing only with guests who are already in your directory.”

• Internal only option Report an error

  “Only people in your organization Turn off external sharing.”

• Domain restriction Report an error

  “Limit external sharing by domain This setting is useful if you want to limit sharing with particular partners, or help prevent sharing with people at certain organizations.”

• Guest access expiration Report an error

  “Guest access to a site or OneDrive will expire automatically after this many days Administrators can set an expiration time for guest access.”

• Anyone link expiration Report an error

  “Link expiration - You can require all Anyone links to expire, and specify the maximum number of days allowed.”

• Anyone link permissions Report an error

  “Link permissions - You can restrict Anyone links so that they can only provide view permission for files or folders.”

• Security group restriction Report an error

  “Allow only users in specific security groups to share externally See Manage security groups.”

• File requests requirement Report an error

  “File requests requires that OneDrive be set to Anyone and edit permissions for Anyone links be enabled. OneDrive settings other than Anyone disable file requests.”

• Guest share items not owned Report an error

  “Allow guests to share items they don't own By default, guests must have full control permission to share items externally.”

• Verification code reauth Report an error

  “People who use a verification code must reauthenticate after this many days If people who use a verification code select to "stay signed in" in the browser, they must prove they can still access the account they used to redeem the sharing invitation by entering a code sent to that account.”

• Guest access reinstate Report an error

  “If you turn off external sharing for your organization and later turn it back on, guests regain access.”

• Guest revoke timeframe Report an error

  “If you restrict or turn off external sharing, guests typically lose access within one hour of the change.”

• Short links Report an error

  “Use short links for sharing files and folders Use a shorter link format for sharing files and folders. This format is useful if you have integrations that require a shorter URL.”

• Domain limit count Report an error

  “To use this setting, list the domains (maximum of 5,000) in the box, using the format domain.com.”

• Powershell sharing domain Report an error

  “You can also limit external sharing by domain by using the Set-SPOTenant Microsoft PowerShell cmdlet with -SharingDomainRestrictionMode and either -SharingAllowedDomainList or -SharingBlockedDomainList.”

• Onedrive not more permissive Report an error

  “The OneDrive setting can be more restrictive than the SharePoint setting, but not more permissive.”

• Viewer names onedrive setting Report an error

  “This setting is selected by default. If you clear it, file viewer info is still recorded and available to you to audit as an admin.”

• Viewer names sharepoint setting Report an error

  “This setting is turned on by default at the organization level and off at the site level for existing sites. Viewer information shows only when the setting is on at both the organization and site level.”

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