Important Considerations when Delegating Folder Sharing Authority
- Last Updated: July 29, 2025
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- MOVEit Transfer
- Version 2022
- Documentation
Before you delegate or remove Secure Folder Sharing authority to/from regular users, you must understand the following:
- Before you turn off (or revoke) Share... (by clearing the check box and
clicking Save)
If you revoke Share
settings (clear the checkbox) after
regular users have enjoyed sharing capabilities, folder permissions will no
longer be customizable by them. (However, the folders created before you revoked
Share will continue to provide access control to users already shared
with.) - Shared folders do not conform to parent folder permission settings...
Once you delegate sharing authority, regular users can customize folder permission settings and user access lists. Shared folders do not need to re-use permission settings from the parent folder. (In most cases they won't.)
Other information: org and system level Secure Folder Sharing configuration
- Turn on/off Secure Folder Sharing for selected orgs
When Secure Folder Sharing is properly licensed and available, MOVEit Transfer sysadmins can also turn on/off Secure Folder Sharing on an org-by-org basis. In this case, only admins of orgs selected by the sysadmin will be able to delegate Secure Folder Sharing authority and range of access control to regular users.
- Secure Folder Sharing license
The Secure Folder Sharing org profile controls must be enabled and a Secure Folder Sharing license must be in place in order to grant regular MOVEit Transfer users autonomy to share their "user-home" folder (/Home/someusername, for example) and associated subfolders with temp/guest users or other regular users. Removing the license for Secure Folder Sharing is similar to revoking the Share permission. Permissions will no longer be customizable by regular users. Only Administrators will be able to customize or remove existing permissions.