External Folder Sharing with without sign-in
Number 1 limitation is the fact that we cannot share folders without requiring users to sign-in. Adoption of this product will be limited without this feature.
Parker
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AdminSharePoint Experiences Team
(spexcustomerengagement@service.microsoft.com, Microsoft SharePoint)
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You can now get shareable links to folders that don’t require recipients to sign-in. If your tenant already allows you do this for files, then it works for folders, too.
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Anonymous
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This should be basic feature. Exactly like Dropbox, you get public link and they don't ask to login. Without it, OneDrive is useless and I am willing to switch to different provider.
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Anonymous
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I need to share 2 word documents through One Drive shared links. I want people to access those documents without having to be signed in. However, when I try to go to One drive Admin center it says "access denied", despite I'm using my personal institutional email account, where I want to upload the documents to share. Is there any other way to share links without having to be signed in? Any tutorial /guidelines/how to instrcutions will be much appreciated.
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Anonymous
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but pictures dont appear. no matter what, if you have logo on the site , it shows as broken image.
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Gary
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This still appears to request a log-in when the link is accessed via Explorer or Edge, but works perfectly in Safari and Chrome. Is there anything incoming to allow no sign-in in Edge and Explorer as it seems to complicate using the shared folder option.
This is particularly tricky for us as our head office have stipulated we must only use Sharepoint for file sharing (no Dropbox or WeTransfer for us :-( )
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veny
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It looks like external users can't create folders? Will this be enabled at some point? The setting in SP Admin center is only for View, Edit & Upload.
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Anonymous
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This still doesn't work for me when I want to share a document. I want to share a form for collaboration, and the users are required to sign-in.
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Luke
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This was not actually fixed. Only individual documents can be shared one at a time.
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Justin
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Will someone please explain HOW you turn off the requirement for Sharing Externally with links sign in? I cannot find this feature anywhere.
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Rockie
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Hi guys! it works.. You need to disable "Lockdown" feature in 'Site collection features'.
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Anonymous
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Not working for me either.
I have checked every setting I can find, spent at least 30 minutes on this, yet I still cannot create a link without sign in. Please fix this or help me find what is wrong. -
Anonymous
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This is not done. At all. When I go to an office 365 group (where 99% of our company's file are), I select "share" and the anonymous access link appears disabled.
All the settings in sharepoint and onedrive admin panels are correct as was verified for 30 minutes by a MSFT tech support assistant after which we reset all sharing.
This is a critical feature. Please deal with it.
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Anonymous
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Great, so we can generate a link for external users to access a folder within a SharePoint document library (yee!). So what's stopping us from getting a link for the document library itself, and for other types of SP lists? It would make so much more sense, plus external users can already do it by editing the URL for a shared folder after accessing it. Come on, guys!
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chris
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It would be best that you can set a sub site that allows access without a Microsoft sign-in.
when you are working with customers all around the world I do not expect all customers to have a Microsoft account, let alone force them to create one, when perhaps we wish to share content with them direct from our department, not necessarily from the company as a whole. especially when perhaps we would like them to complete a survey form which we would like to be hosted in said SharePoint sub site. -
Anonymous
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You can already activate the external sharing capabilities in SharePoint Admin Center, or in OneDrive AdminCenter.
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Aaron Ott
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I am experiencing an issue with a client using SharePoint who is sharing with external users and not requiring sign-in. Only a user with sharepoint admin rights can uncheck the "require sign-in" box. Standard users do not see that option and all shares to external users from standard internal users all require sign-in. This should not be the case.
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Sudarshan Bodke
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When we select a folder, and create a share link via "View Link- No Sign in Required", the user is still prompted to input credentials.
When will this be fixed?
Is there something to be done from our end for this ?
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Riley
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It looks like this was recently added to both our production and our first-release tenants. I can now share folders using the Get Link feature and the options for "View/Edit Link - No Sign-In Required" are now available. I haven't seen an official announcement yet though. Can this status be changed now?
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Anonymous
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I noticed that this is now finally available if you are part of the early release schedule in Office 365 - I just confirmed it is working for me now. I'm not sure when it will be available generally, but I suspect it should be soon since it is part of the early release.
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Mario P.
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Working with SharePoint users since 2013
I'm glad this is already being worked on 3 years later. -
Anonymous
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Number 1 limitation for this service I think, and I agree with others, please provide a ETA if available.