In SharePoint Online, modern team sites are created with an Office 365 Group associated by default. You can set the site privacy to public or private during creating sites from the admin center. In addition, the “Everyone except external users” group is added under the members group of the site.
What is a public SharePoint site?
Public Group means everyone can join it freely without obtaining permissions from the Group Owner. In other words – free lunch for all. Any member can join and have Add/Edit/Delete access to all the assets of an Office 365 Group (SharePoint Site, Planner, Calendar, Teams).
What is the difference between a public and private SharePoint site?
Public – anyone in the organization can access this site. Private – only members can access this site.
How do I share my SharePoint with everyone?
Select Share site. In the Share site pane, enter the names of people or groups to add them to the site, or enter “Everyone except external users” to share the site with everyone in your organization. Change the permission level (Read, Edit, or Full control) as needed.
How do you tell if a team is public or private?
Select ‘Manage Teams’ This window will give you a list of all your teams. Under the ‘type’ column, you can see a ‘Padlock’ icon symbolising that the team is private, or if it has a little ‘globe’ icon, it means that team is public*
Can you share a SharePoint page with external users?
SharePoint has external sharing settings at both the organization level and the site level (previously called the “site collection” level). To allow external sharing on any site, you must allow it at the organization level. You can then restrict external sharing for other sites.
How do guests access SharePoint?
1) Enable guest access at tenant level In the Office 365 Admin Center, go to Settings > Security & Privacy, choose Edit (under Sharing). Click on Site Settings to allow users to share SharePoint Online and OneDrive for business content with people outside the organization.
