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Sharing through team alias does not work (despite confirmation)
A folder in a Group doclib is already accessible by all the members of the Group.
Not sure to understand what you want to obtain...
Can you please elaborate a bit?
- MathiasHofmannMar 22, 2018Copper Contributor
Yes, you are right Salvatore, but one might want to tell the group that there are new files in a specific folder and just use the sharing option to quickly send the link to the group. If this doesn't make sense fine - but Office 365 Groups allows to do this by sending and confirming that the message is sent to the team. It does work for individual team members, so why not for the team alias? People will just try to do it this way. In my opinion this option should at least be blocked (sharing files with people that already have access) or it should work, but it should not make people believe that it works when it doesn't.
- Mar 22, 2018Have you by chance reviewed if the e-mail has sent? You can check it in the Sent Folder of your Inbox
- MathiasHofmannMar 22, 2018Copper Contributor
When it was sent to individual team members it is in the sent box. It is not in the sent box when it was sent to the team alias. But both scenarios show confirmation that the link message was sent.
- Salvatore BiscariMar 22, 2018Silver Contributor
IMHO, it is indeed a quite peculiar use of the sharing feature...
StephenRice can surely explain to us what is going on.