Create a shared drive to contain files and folders for external sharing.(Optional) To allow sharing with people outside your organization without Google Accounts, turn on visitor sharing for the new organizational unit.

Turn on external sharing for the new organizational unit, overriding the setting for the top organizational unit.

Turn off external sharing for the top organizational unit, as described in the next section.

Create an organizational unit with no members.

With this approach, the shared drive acts as the folder. To allow only certain files to be shared externally, you can use shared drives instead. You don’t have control over individual folders in users My Drives. The sharing settings available in your Admin console apply to users by organizational unit or groups. Supported editions for this feature: Business Standard and Business Plus Enterprise Education Fundamentals, Education Standard, Teaching and Learning Upgrade, and Education Plus Nonprofits G Suite Business Essentials.

To control sharing with external non-Google users, turn visitor sharing on or off.Įxpand all | Collapse all Set up custom sharing for a group or organizational unit.

For instructions, see Create and manage trust rules for Drive sharing (beta).

If you need more granular control over sharing, you can use trust rules to manage sharing both outside and inside your organization.

restrict external user access to content in shared drives.

restrict link sharing when external sharing is turned on.

allow sharing only with certain domains.

turn external sharing on or off for specific child organizational units or configuration groups.

turn external sharing on or off for your entire organization.

These sharing settings apply to items from Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, My Maps, folders, and anything else stored in Drive.ĭepending on your Google Workspace edition, you can: Īs an administrator, you can control if users can share Google Drive files and folders with people outside your organization who have Google Accounts. To learn how to share or set permissions for your own files, go to Share files from Google Drive.

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