To change the setting, navigate to the SharePoint Online admin center:
- Sign in to Office 365 as a global admin or SharePoint admin.
- Select the app launcher icon
in the upper-left and choose Admin to open the Office 365 admin center. (If you don’t see the Admin tile, you don’t have Office 365 administrator permissions in your organization.)
- In the left pane, choose Admin centers > SharePoint.
Change the default link type (SharePoint Online global setting)
- In the left pane, choose sharing.
- Under Default link type choose the option you want to show by default when a user gets a link.
- Under Default link permission choose whether you want the default permission to be view or edit.
Change the default link type (site collection setting)
- In the left pane, choose site collections.
- Select the site collection that you want to change, and then click Sharing.
- Under Default link type, clear the Respect default organization setting check box, and then choose the option you want to show by default when a user gets a link.
- Under Default link permission, clear the Respect default organization setting check box, and then choose whether you want the default permission to be view or edit.
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Click Save.