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Configuration Required for Sharing Feature in SharePoint 2013

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Some of you may have noticed the new Share button in SharePoint 2013. Without going into great detail, the Sharing metaphor is plugged in throughout SharePoint as a means for anyone to request and grant access, for themselves or someone else. If you are logged into a site where you are not a site collection administrator though, you may notice that the Share button is not visible. What you need to know is that the Share option doesn't appear for non-administrators unless you configure two things in Central Admin...System Settings...Configure outgoing e-mail settings:

  • Outbound SMTP Server - Sharing uses emails for notification for the various parties involved
  • From Address - can be any value, doesn't need to be real, but if you don't have this set to a non-blank value then the Sharing options won't show up. I don't know if this will be the case at RTM or not.

Sharing brings some pretty nice features into SharePoint 2013 so it's worth spending a little time on it to get to know it better.

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  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
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  • Anonymous
    August 28, 2012
    love you steve my bf (bf=boyfriend)

  • Anonymous
    February 16, 2014
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  • Anonymous
    June 10, 2014
    Do you know why my Share feature for a group does not work?

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    September 18, 2014
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