Sites in Microsoft Teams allow Yale University individuals and external partners to be members. Membership and file sharing behavior can differ based on the type of Channel being used in a Team, however, and also extends to the Channels underlying SharePoint site.

Teams sites and associated channels do not allow that Anyone with the link (unauthenticated access by anyone with the link) option by default due to security concerns. If you need this capability steps to request it are given below.

Membership and file sharing by channel type:

Channel Type	Invite Internal Members (Site membership, including file access)	Invite External Members (Site membership, including file access)	File Sharing with non site Members (Sharing of individual files or folders, Anyone links)
Standard	Yes	Yes	Yes
Private	Yes (by invitation)	Yes (by invitation)	Yes (only with invited members)
Shared	Yes	No	No (though they can be set to allow use of Anyone links.

Details:

• Standard Channels: Open to all team members. External members can be added.
• Private Channels: Restricted to specific members within the team. External members of the team can be added.
• Shared Channels: Designed for collaboration with people inside our organization currently. External members of the team cannot be added. They allow invitation of Yale University members that are not a member of the primary team.

If you need to share files or folders with someone outside the University or need to use the permissions of anyone with the link to a file or folder, you can request the site be set to allow external sharing. Please also see our best practices when sharing files.

Request the ability to use Anyone links when sharing files

• To request the ability to share files or folders to Anyone with the link, submit a request to our team stating the need to allow use of Anyone links and provide the site name or URL.