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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?
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.
- Have you by chance reviewed if the e-mail has sent? You can check it in the Sent Folder of your Inbox
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.
- StephenRice
Microsoft
Hi all,
Nothing inherently wrong with using a sharing link as a pointer to the document. The link that works for "people with existing access" will do the same thing but not grant any additional permission.
Now, the actual issue is that the mail isn't getting sent, which isn't great. In your normal e-mail mailbox, are you able to send mail to that group? Thanks!
Stephen Rice
OneDrive Program Manager II
IMHO, it is indeed a quite peculiar use of the sharing feature...
StephenRice can surely explain to us what is going on.
