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.
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Re: Changing a Private Sharepoint Online site to a Public one
- Go to the site page.
- Select Settings (tool icon) in the top right corner of the site.
- Select ‘Site Information’
- Scroll down until you see ‘Privacy Settings’ and change from Private to Public, or vice versa.
- Save!
1 Answer. As you may have known, MS has deprecated public site feature in SharePoint Online since 2015. We cannot create a public site now. If you want to share contents like documents to public, we can create anonymous access for sharing.
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.
‘Everyone except external users‘ – This group exists in SharePoint Online and gives access to anyone that is a member of your organization.
Is SharePoint dying or still getting popular? and will it be discontinued soon? The short answer: There is no risk of SharePoint dying anytime soon, since it is gaining more popularity as an essential part of the hybrid solutions (on-premises and in the cloud) that Microsoft’s vision for the future relies on.
1. Microsoft Exchange Server, SharePoint Server will only be offered on a subscription basis. In 2021, Microsoft will be moving some of its applications for on-premises servers to a subscription model.
Inviting Users to Your SharePoint Site
- Click the Share button at the top right of your screen.
- Enter their email addresses, a personal message and then click Options to give them Visitor, Member or Owner access.
How to add “Everyone except external users” domain group to a SharePoint site
- Gear Icon > Site Settings.
- Under Users and Permissions, click on Site permissions.
- Click on the group where you want to add everyone in your organization to.
- New > Add Users.
Create a group
- On your website or team site, click Settings.
- On the Permissions page, click Advanced Permissions Settings.
- On the Permissions tab, click Create Group.
- On the Create Group page, in the Name and About me boxes, type a name and description for this SharePoint group.
Everyone except external users (EEEU) is an internal SharePoint group automatically populated with all tenant users. The intent behind the group was to facilitate easy internal sharing.
Therefore, we’ve made the difficult decision to discontinue the SharePoint Online Public Website feature so that we can focus our efforts and investments on delivering capabilities in Office 365 that will bring more value to our customers.
SharePoint is replaced by Microsoft Teams – the purpose of both the products are different.
Potential alternatives to SharePoint include Glasscubes, Huddle, Samepage, Liferay, Nuxeo, Confluence, Source by IC Thrive, Jostle, G Suite, ClearPoint, Redbooth, and Slack. Each of these applications provide similar capabilities to SharePoint while providing some more unique features.
SharePoint 2019 end of life
Extended Support ends at 14.07. 2026. End of life of SharePoint 2019 is 14.07.
Microsoft 365 is continually analyzed and updated to meet the needs of modern business. As more organizations migrate to the cloud, key services are adapted to improve performance and security. As part of this ongoing evolution, Microsoft will retire SharePoint workflows.
Microsoft Teams is the hub for teamwork. It allows for collaboration, chat, calls, meetings, and so much more! SharePoint Online is primarily a document management and intranet platform where you store, collaborate, and share information seamlessly across the organization, and is also part of Microsoft 365.
A SharePoint team site connects you and your team to shared content and resources. Use team sites to store and collaborate on files or to create and manage lists of information as well as: Track and stay updated on project status.Connect to a Microsoft 365 group to access team resources.
Create a Microsoft 365 group
- In the admin center, expand Groups, and then click Groups.
- Select Add a group.
- On the Choose a group type page, select Office 365, and select Next.
- On the Basics page, type a name for the group, and, optionally, a description.