Companies have groups within their organization, due to compliance reasons some groups may not permitted to share documents with other groups within the organization. This can be managed with Internal Group Sharing Restriction feature, which enables to set policy and provide control over the sharing and receiving of files among groups within the organization.
The policy settings allows for control of outbound and inbound internal sharing. The policy applies both to sharing of folders and files (where recipients are specified).
To open the Internal Sharing Restrictions policies:
- Login to Syncplicity with administrator credentials.
- In the navigation bar, click Admin → Policies → Security → Internal Sharing Restrictions. The following policies display:
- Outgoing Internal Sharing Restrictions
- Incoming Internal Sharing Restrictions
Outbound Internal Sharing Restrictions policy
This policy can be set to control outbound (sending) sharing of folders/files to internal users of a group within the organization. The following options are available for controlling outbound Internal sharing:
- No restriction on internal Sharing - Allows sharing of a folder/file to internal group users within the company without any restriction. By default, this option is selected.
- Internal sharing to groups with current Policy Set - Displays the existing policy settings with group's names, which allows internal sharing of folder/files to the groups. This does not allow you to modify.
- Internal sharing to specific groups - Allows for the selection of a whitelist or blacklist of groups for outgoing sharing.
The whitelist allows you to specify the list of groups the users can share with, sharing with users from other groups is not allowed.
The blacklist allows you to specify the list of groups that the users cannot share with, sharing with users from other groups is allowed.
Incoming Internal Sharing Restrictions policy
This policy can be used to control Inbound (receiving) sharing of folders with internal group users within the organization. The following options are available for controlling Inbound Internal sharing:
- No restriction on receiving internal Sharing - Allows receiving of shared folder/file from internal group users within the company without any restriction. By default, this option will be selected as shown in the figure above.
- Receive Internal sharing from groups with current Policy Set - Displays the existing policy settings with group names, which allows receiving of share folder/files from internal groups. This does not allow you to modify.
Additionally, you can select the Enforce read-only (Reader) permissions on Received folders check box to set read-only permissions to the received folders/files.
- Internal shares from specific groups - Allows for the selection of a whitelist or blacklist of groups to receive shares.
The whitelist allows you to specify the list of groups the users can receive shares from, receiving shares from users from other groups is not allowed. 
The blacklist allows you to specify the list of groups the users cannot share with, sharing with users from other groups will be allowed.
Sharing Policy Compliance Report
The Sharing Policy Compliance Report provides administrators visibility into the shared folders and files which conformance to compliance and that are out of compliance with the currently defined group policies. This report will show any current shared files or folders that out of compliance with the existing sharing policies, the report will look at all current sharing policies including affiliate sharing policies.
See About Syncplicity reports to learn more about the Sharing Policy Compliance report.