SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business Custom Sharing Controls

Today, we’re going to explore two relatively new sharing controls in SharePoint Online (and, by extension, OneDrive for Business).  The two options we’re going to look at are located inside the SharePoint Admin Center (https://<tenant>-admin.sharepoint.com) under Sharing:

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Fixing Office 365 Anonymous Group Write-back and External Delivery

Yes, Hell has frozen over. The cows have come home. The lady of size has sung.

I have come up with a “best case” (ok, maybe “better case”) solution for the Office Microsoft 365 hybrid group write-back problem.

Background

For the long(er) background, you’ll probably want to go see this post.… [ Continue reading ]

Office 365 Groups and Anonymous External Senders

I have created a more detailed example of how to do this here: https://bhr.62e.myftpupload.com/2018/09/14/fixing-office-365-anonymous-group-write-back-and-external-delivery/

Office 365 Groups are glorious creations.  There are, however, some instances where they don’t work as you anticipate (or hope). One of those scenarios is when you are configured in hybrid coexistence with the following scenario:

  • Office 365 Group Writeback is enabled (for configuring permissions, see this script)
  • RequireSenderAuthenticationEnabled is set to False for an Office 365 group
  • Your organization’s MX record is configured to point on-premises

In this scenario, external emails sent to Office 365 groups (via your organization’s MX record pointing on-premises) will be returned with one of our favorite NDRs:

“You do not have permission to send to this recipient.”… [ Continue reading ]