SharePoint Online: “Anyone with the link” is Greyed Out
Problem: “Anyone with the link” is disabled in SharePoint Online Share window is greyed out!
How to Enable Anyone with the link option in SharePoint Online?
As a first step, we need to enable sharing with anonymous users at the tenant level. Here is how to enable external users with anonymous links in SharePoint Online tenant.
- Login to Office 365 Admin Center >> SharePoint admin center
- Click on “Sharing” from left navigation >> Set “Sharing outside your organization“
to “Allow sharing to authenticated external users and using
anonymous access links”
- Click “OK” to save your changes.
PnP PowerShell to Enable Guest Sharing for a Site Collection
Once the external sharing with anonymous access is enabled at the tenant level, we have to make sure its enabled at site collection level also.
#Parameter
$SiteURL= "https://crescent.sharepoint.com/sites/marketing"
#Connect to PnP Online
Connect-PnPOnline -Url $SiteURL -Credentials (Get-Credential)
#Set Sharing Settings to Enable Anonymous sharing
Set-PnPTenantSite -Url $SiteURL -Sharing ExternalUserAndGuestSharing
Sites are being created with Sharing set to “Don’t allow sharing outside your organization” but the global setting is to Allow Anonymous sharing. I need to go into the Admin center and reset the value every time a new site is created. Any idea what is causing this and how I can change it?
The sites are being created through Power Automate REST API calls, using the Modern Team Site without Group template (STS#3)
hallo eric, were you able to fix this? we have a similar issue.