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Default share when sharing online files in Outlook online
cfiessinger the right-click functionality or the Email are cool additions, we're not complaining about these. It's the difference in permissions that's causing some confusion. If you have a Private group and attach a file from OneDrive "the regular way" (compose a new message, press the attachments button, browse to the file), it gets automatically permissoned to the recipients only. This works the same way in OWA or Outlook, and it matches my expectations for such functionality.
If you use the new method via the Email button/right-click menu, even for Private groups it gets scoped down to everyone in the company. Personally, I'd prefer to have the exact same behavior as the older method, and it definitely makes sense to me to scope it only to the recipients if you are in Private group. So there should still be no problem for anyone that is intended to access the file, while still keeping the file, well, Private.
In both cases, we can still change the permissions manually, so it's not that big of a deal. But having different permissions applied can be confusing.
As I already said, I cannot reproduce the difference you are seeing.
In fact, for me, in both cases (i.e. "the regular way" and via the Email button/right-click menu) the attachment from a private Group gets the "Anyone in my organization can edit" permission as default.
- VasilMichevMar 07, 2017MVP
Well, one of us is not using the latest updates. Pretty sure it's me in the case of Outlook, as I'm on FR for Deferred and havent pushed the Feb build yet, but I also get the same experience in OWA.
Just tried it again, and it again gets scoped to "recipients" in both OWA and Outlook using the "regular" method.