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Sharing through team alias does not work (despite confirmation)
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.
MicrosoftHi 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
Hi Stephen,
thanks for your understanding an for taking this seriously. I know that people are using both ways (share and copy link) to point to files and folders - so someone should look into this.
Yes, I can successfully send to the group from within the Outlook Online link as well as from Outlook Desktop. But the way most people use the sharing feature is through the process described above. My tenant was able to reproduce this behaviour (link confirmed to be sent but not sent). As already mentioned, it works with individual member accounts of a group but not when using the group alias.
Thanks again! Mathias
I have just tested this and something is definitively wrong with the sharing experience when sharing a file with a Group. Here are my findings:
(1) If I share a Group file with the Group itself, there is not a sharing e-mail sent to the Group
(2) If I share a Group file with another file, the sharing e-mail is sent and received in the Group with no problem
So it seems (1) is currently an scenario not covered with the sharing feature....adding also cfiessinger
I was curious to see what happens if I share a file in my ODfB with myself... Well, it works (meaning that the email is regularly sent).
So, while I continue to think that sharing a file with a Group by one of its members is a rather odd technique to send to the other members a link to that file, it should definitely work.
StephenRice: IMHO, we have a bug here...
