Posts Tagged "External Sharing"
To Share or not to Share? A must-read for SharePoint Site owners
Just like Hamlet contemplated death and suicide in the famous Shakespeare play with the famous “To be or not to be,” SharePoint Site Owners must also make a very important, though less dramatic decision. The decision on whether To Share or not to Share (allow or disallow sharing of the site and its contents). Let me explain… What’s the “problem” with Sharing? As… keep reading >
How to stop site and file sharing in SharePoint and OneDrive
Say, you shared a site, file or a folder with someone in your organization or externally. Maybe you shared from SharePoint or your own OneDrive. And now you want to “unshare” for security and best practices reasons. How do you stop site and file sharing? With this post, I would like to explain the techniques. Steps differ depending on whether you shared… keep reading >
Why you should stop disabling external sharing in SharePoint and OneDrive
OK, this is yet another one of those “I told you so” blog posts. I see this happening all the time when I work with my clients: IT or Management completely disabling external sharing in SharePoint and OneDrive for Business. Just to be clear what I mean by external sharing here – the ability to share sites, files and folders stored from… keep reading >
Why you should stop emailing file attachments and start sharing SharePoint links instead
Sending emails with several attachments has become a norm over the years. The reason for that, of course, was the fact that this was the only available way to transmit documents such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDFs or other types over an email. However, with the onslaught of “cloud” storage, like OneDrive and SharePoint, we now have a choice. We can now… keep reading >
How to share files and folders externally in SharePoint
I wanted to write this post for such a long time. And happy I finally can. Anyone who tried to share content externally in SharePoint Online/Office 365 knows that it wasn’t an easy endeavor. Sharing itself was not that hard. However, experience for the recipient was a big pain in the ass. For the recipient, it was almost like a visit to… keep reading >
Share vs. Get a link in SharePoint and OneDrive
SharePoint is all about sharing and collaboration. So what would be the right method to share a document with a colleague? If we hover over the document in both SharePoint and OneDrive, we see two options: Share Get a link What is the difference between the two? Let me explain. The biggest difference between the 2 methods is whether or not you… keep reading >
Office 365 Groups external sharing – how it works
If you ventured yourself into the world of Office 365 Groups, it is only natural that you want to start sharing information stored in the Office 365 Group with external parties, like clients, vendors, contractors. In the past I have published a number of posts on the topic of external sharing related to team sites, however, the way external sharing works in… keep reading >
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