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Sharing is invite or link-based. The resulting URL uses our tenant's sharepoint domain and the Team, folder path and filename are unencoded:
The default sharing setting for our organization is Specific people
Most Teams have Anyone
(Public) sharing enabled as an option.
Either select Share (best for inviting existing users to a folder or document) or Copy Link for pasting into another document.
Both allow you to select a sharing level, Anyone
through People you choose
.
Some considerations:
Anyone
setting in addition gives options for setting an expiry time or a password.download=1
to the link's query string, replacing web=1
if it's present.
To avoid having to manually create links to every document intended for sharing, you may want to create a "Public Share" folder, create an Anyone
link from it with no expiry and use that in website or materials. This way you can drop files into this public folder and they become public for anyone with that link automatically.
The downside is they can browse all other documents in that folder. But these already should be public.
It may also be fewer steps to invite a guest (such as temporary collaborator) to the Team and add them to a "Shared channel" directly when there will be co-editing work.