How to Make a SharePoint Online Site Public?

In this SharePoint Online tutorial, I will show you how to make a SharePoint team site Public.

On a SharePoint team site, here Public means anyone within the organization can access the SharePoint site without having any request permission. External users who are not a part of an organization can not be able to access the sharePoint site.

By default, a SharePoint Communication site allows everyone in the organization to access it.

How to Make a SharePoint Online Team Site Public

Now, let us discuss how to make a team site public within SharePoint Online.

I will show you while creating a SharePoint team site, how to make it public so that all the users in your organization can access it. Also, I will explain, how to make an existing SharePoint Online team site public.

Set a SharePoint team site public while creating it

There are different ways to create a SharePoint Online team site, you can create it from the SharePoint home page or from the admin centre. If you are new to this, check out an article on how to create a team site in SharePoint Online.

While creating the site, we need to set the “Privacy settings” as “Public – anyone in the organization can access this site” and then click on Next. Check the figure below:

• Then, we can see a SharePoint Online team site has been created with a Public group.

If you will create the team site by following the above Privacy settings, the site will become public and anyone in your organization can access it.

Set an existing SharePoint Online team site public

Now, we will see, how to make an existing SharePoint team site public.

• Open your existing SharePoint team site, Click on Site information under Settings or the Gear icon.

• In the Site information pane, Select Public -anyone in the organization can access this site from the Privacy settings and Click on Save.

Once you click on Save, the site will become public and anyone in your organization can access it.

Make SharePoint Online Communication Site Public

When you will create a SharePoint communication site, by default, it is set as Public. It means anyone in your organization can access it without asking for access.

Conclusion

I have explained here, how to make a SharePoint team site public while creating it. And also, step by step I have shown you, how to make an existing SharePoint Online team site public. Also, by default, a SharePoint Online communications site is set as public.

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