Windows 10: New secure external sharing experience in OneDrive and SharePoint

Brink · Oct 2, 2017

At Ignite we announced a major improvement to the way secure external sharing of files and folders works in both OneDrive and SharePoint in Office 365 and we wanted to share what this means for users and IT administrators alike. Based on your feedback, we have focused our updates on two key areas: ensuring intended recipients get access 100% of the time, and continual reverification of identity.

These updates will begin rolling out to First Release tenants on October 9, 2017.

Ensuring intended recipients get access 100% of the time: Identity verification

Office 365 makes it easy to share files and folders by creating a shareable link. Recipients can click the link and immediately access the file without having to go through any additional process. You can already create links that can be used by anyone, and links that are internally shareable within people in your organization.

Sometimes you need to share with additional security and require that people with the link prove that they are intended recipients. Office 365 also makes it easy to do this by allowing you to send links that work only for specific people

Now, when sending secure links to recipients outside of your organization, those recipients will be sent an email message with a time-limited, single-use verification code when they open the link. By entering the verification code, the user proves ownership of the email account to which the secure link was sent.

Secure links allow external recipients to access files and folders securely without requiring them to create or maintain a Microsoft account. Email-based verification codes are a simple and effective way to provide secure access, familiar to users who access secure internet sites that verify identity by sending a code by email or text message.

Continual reverification of identity

Now, IT administrators can specify how often external recipients must get a new code and re-verify their email address. This governance control protects your organization’s files and folders from situations where an external recipient’s employment status changes, or any other situation which can cause them to lose access to their email account.

To enable this setting, go to the sharing section in the SharePoint admin center.

IT professionals will recognize secure links provide access to external recipients using the same standard adopted by many financial institutions: email-based verification codes and reverification periods. This familiar approach is easier to manage and more secure than competing solutions that require an external recipient to create user accounts that may persist even after the user leaves their current employer and no longer owns that email, creating a very dangerous security hole.

Getting started

These features start rolling out on October 9, 2017 to First Release customers and will roll out to all customers by the end of the year. For additional information on the new external sharing experience in OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online, read the New Sharing Features in First Release help article.
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Source: Introducing a new secure external sharing experience - Microsoft Tech Community

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pierke · Oct 2, 2017

OneDrive for Business (Sharepoint) Application Syncing Old Files?

Also, it seems that the latest OneDrive for Business on Windows 10 does not sync a shared folder from my Office 365 personal sharepoint site.

Sven Johannsen · Oct 2, 2017

Documents in Office Hub on Windows Nokia Lumia Icon (Windows Phone 8) not syncing with Office 365.

OK then. Consider that the phone doesn't sync with the laptop, but rather with the cloud. Just a technicality, but the point is the file needs to make it to the cloud (SharePoint/OneDrive) before the phone has any hope of getting any changes. I haven't
quite got my head around how the two sections, my OneDrive (my files) and the SharePoint (business shares) work. I get that the OneDrive @ files are mine and I can create files and save them there from the phone, or wherever. Files on the SharePoint (Team)
area are a bit different. I cannot create and send a file there from the phone, though I can see those files 'check them out' and edit them, and they go back whence they came. Once open I can 'save them as', making a new file either on the phone or even in
my Business or consumer OneDrive. I don't think you have too many people here on this 'consumer' forum that have a lot of experience with the Business offerings. I have had pretty good luck using the O365 Business forums, and even MS support. You are paying
for support with your subscription. Not putting you off, just not sure I understand how it should work well enough to understand what might be wrong.

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