#Microsoft onedrive business sharing how to

Open the file and do a search for the external email address of the removed users. It will be in Excel format as you can see above. You’ll receive an email when the report is ready.

Nominate a folder for this report to be sent to. Now select More Settings on the left and Run sharing report from the options that appear on the right as shown above. In the source OneDrive for Business, select the COG in the upper right corner and then the option OneDrive Settings. This may vary slight but you should also be able to identify the user by their Display name if needed. In this list you should find your external user in the format of: To display of all the users who have access to the specific OneDrive for Business site. You’ll need to know the tenant name prior i.e.

Connect to SharePoint Online via PowerShell. What happens when you need to find just one user to remove sharing from amongst a list of hundreds of users?ġ. It becomes a lot more problematic when you start scaling to many users as you can see here: That all works fine when you have a small number of shared files and a small number of users working with a file. The original user would then be prompted the Remove the external user, which they would do to remove access. The easiest way to achieve this would be simply to hit the cross next to the external users name in the web interface as shown above. One of the benefits of sharing using OneDrive for Business is that the sharing rights can easily be revoked by the original user if desired. Somewhere else, you can see that this user (Lewis Collins) has the document open to work on. In the above example you’ll see that the file Employee Engagement Plan.docx has been been shared by the owner with an external user (Lewis Collins).

I’m not going to show you how to do this in this article but if you need to see how this is done have a look at: One of the great abilities of OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online is the ability to quickly and easily share a link to a file with people outside your organisation.

#Microsoft onedrive business sharing how to