How to let people in my organization share files to anyone with the link

Question

I am an admin and I assign accounts to colleagues. When my colleague has a view access to a file, he/she also needs to share it to people outside the company, but for the colleague, the "Share link with anyone" option is disabled. How do I enable the option for my colleagues? Thanks.

Answer 1

Generally speaking, only the "owner" of the file, or optionally a person with Edit permissions is able to re-share it. People with view access can only copy the existing link, without making modifications.

Answer 2

Based on your description, I understand that you want to make colleagues can share files with external users.

Here are steps:

1.Enable external sharing in the tenant level. Go to SharePoint admin center -> Polices -> Sharing -> Set Anyone.

2.Enable external sharing in the site level. Go to SharePoint admin center -> Sites -> Active sites -> Select the site you want to share -> Sharing -> Set Anyone.

3.Go to Site settings -> Site collection features -> Deactivate "Limited-access user permission lockdown mode" feature.

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Answer 3

Hello Emily, I did all the three steps, but for my colleague, he can only share a file/folder to anyone when he has edit access. If he has only view access to a file/folder, the "share link to anyone" option is still disabled for him.