How to Disable or Hide "Everyone" in People Picker in SharePoint 2016

Question

HI,

We are arranging the Peoples and Groups for interna and external Users. I need to hide "everyone" in people picker so there is no chance I can give the external usres in "Owners" group.

I saw some articles in SPO, where it can easily be hidden/disabled but not in On Prem. Do we know how?

https://techtrainingnotes.blogspot.com/2016/03/sharepoint-2013-and-sharepoint-online.html

Thanks,

Frances

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Answer 1

According to your description, I recommend disabling this option via powershell commands which can be restored at any time.
This is the powershell command involved:

$claimMgr = Get-SPClaimProviderManager

$allUser = get-spclaimprovider –identity "AllUsers"

$allUser.IsEnabled = $false

$claimMgr.Update()

If you want to restore it, just let $allUser.IsEnabled=$true.
Reference:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/ad63bd73-5070-493c-a358-30d4ab07cdcb/how-disable-everyone-group?forum=SP2016

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