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Remove a Collaborator Governance Action is not working
Hi Community, I created a File Policy with a Governance Action to remove a specific user as a collaborator but it does not take effect. Scenario: 1. Create a File Policy that matches all files i...
Thank you for all the testing!
Raised this to MS Support and according to them it only works if the user has been added as a Direct Access not a shared link or the usual sharing that we do where we specify a specific user when sharing.
I really hope Microsoft would also support the remove collaboration when using the usual sharing.
In my continued testing, I cannot get automated governance to take the action to remove the collaborator. However, if I change the action to Remove External users, it works, and removes all external users.
Weird that it does not do the same for collaborator though. I may open a ticket with Microsoft about this and see what response I get.
Thank you for all the testing!
Raised this to MS Support and according to them it only works if the user has been added as a Direct Access not a shared link or the usual sharing that we do where we specify a specific user when sharing.
I really hope Microsoft would also support the remove collaboration when using the usual sharing.
Ha, MS support actually referred me back to this post.
I guess we have our answer on this.
Thank you for the help PeterRising
Hi Mary, thank you for this information. This is really handy to know. I agree that this functionality is not ideal. I have logged with Microsoft myself. I am sure they will tell me the same thing. I will let you know if otherwise.
