SharePoint protection: How to unsubscribe from emails about canceled file sharing

Introduction

✍️Learn more about protecting file sharing in M365 here.

If an end user shares a file that violates one of your company's policies, the sharing may be automatically canceled, and the user will also receive an email notification about this cancellation.

For end users: Contact the admin for policy adjustment

If you receive an email notification stating that the sharing of your file was canceled, it indicates that the file violated a company policy.

✍️If you believe that the file sharing was legitimate, you can contact the admin and ask them to review and adjust the policy settings.

For admins: Review the policy

If an end user reports that the sharing of their file was canceled for what they believe is a legitimate sharing scenario, consider:

reviewing the respective policy settings
if necessary, adjust or disable the policy to accommodate legitimate sharing scenarios

Deactivating the policy prevents automatic unsharing and email notifications for future occurrences.

SharePoint protection: How to unsubscribe from emails about canceled file sharing

Introduction

For end users: Contact the admin for policy adjustment

For admins: Review the policy

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