Testing Trust Rules

[jpark]

Hi all, 

Is there a best practice re:  testing out trust rules in Drive?  It seems as though it's all or nothing; turn on trust rules and boom, they are applied, and the old sharing settings are knocked out.  Is there a way to create trust rules without turning trust rules on or roll them out?  I know that seems like a strange question, but it would be nice to setup the rules before turning on trust rules and messing up the sharing in Drive right away. 

[icrew]

You can set up trust rules so they only apply to a specific OU or group. See https://support.google.com/a/answer/10621317?hl=en#zippy=%2Ccreate-a-trust-rule

[rdnixon · Accepted solution]

If you switch to using Trust rule it creates a default set of rules for you which replicate the old style sharing permissions in the Drive section. It is one or the other. Trust rules totally replace the basic settings in the Drive section. You can be very granular and set rules by OUs and Groups. 

[Kim_Nilsson]

Yeah, this is the "belt and suspenders" solution. Just switching shouldn't mess things up.

It's afterwards, when you create your own rules you can do that. 🙂

But if you leave the default Trust Rules you always have them to fall back on.

Then you may have to exclude some OUs/Groups from the default rules, else the custom rules will not kick in, having the default rules overruling.

[Kelly_McMahon]

Well something must have happened because suddenly, our students can received Docs shared with them from outside of our Organization.  I am not sure how ling it has been like this but it was not like that before Trust RuIes. I need to read up on Trust Rules more but in the meantime, would anyone be able to share/screenshot their Trust Rule for this?  Thank you!    UPDATE:  I figured out the trust rule setting if anyone needs it.