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The external sharing features of Microsoft SharePoint let users in your organization share content with people outside the organization (such as partners, vendors, clients, or customers). External sharing in SharePoint is part of secure collaboration with Microsoft 365.
You can share a file with people outside your team (if they are also using Teams) by sending it to them in a chat. If you want to share an Office file with someone outside your organization, open the file in its Office app on the desktop, web, or mobile and share it from there.
Can you share OneDrive files with external users?
Sharing OneDrive or SharePoint files with external users (guests) allows you to securely collaborate with people outside your organization such as your business partners, vendors, clients, or customers — with or without a Microsoft 365 subscription, OneDrive, or SharePoint account.
How to disable external sharing per library or subsite?
The sharing options are site collection based, so you must split these to site collections. However, when you set OneDrive and SharePoint sliders to allow to be shared with “Anyone” SharePoint by default puts all sites not allowed to use “Anyone” by default you have to turn this on in the admin center to allow it for individual Site collections.
How to turn external sharing on or off?
Turn external sharing on or off for individual site collections 1 From the SharePoint admin center, click site collections. 2 Check the box next to those site collections whose sharing settings you want to turn on or off. 3 In the ribbon, click Sharing. 4 Do one of the following: More
How to enable or disable Share Option per each library?
Please test everything before moving forward in your production environment. The first requirement is Allow members to share the site and individual files and folders must be checked: Second, on your main site within a site collection you need to create a copy of the Contribute permission level, name it Contribute without Sharing as an example.
Since OneDrive has a Site Collection called https://MYDOMAIN-my.sharepoint.com and our Sharepoint is https://MYDOMAIN.sharepoint.com, these are already 2 separate site collections, so why wouldn’t we be able set SharePoint to NO external sharing and OneDrive to allow it?