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Anyone with the link can respond - disabled
This is happening to me, and worse than that, it's intermittent on the same Form. Meaning I have the option to share the link with anyone, and in the next hour, the option disappears. These are saved in Group Forms. Went to the SharePoint site for that Form and changed sharing permissions to allow sharing for 'anyone with the link'. It seemed to work! I thought we found root cause! I sent the Form to a colleague and one outside our 365 group. Neither could access. Need to sign in, the screen said.
I want to use Forms to manage our client surveys, but this complete lack of dependability means I need to go back to Google Forms. Ugh.
annaTGN This is happening to me too! It's a form that we just pushed out to hundreds of students all over the state, and now they can't access it. Same thing - it's intermittent. Some hours it's up, some hours it's down. Sometimes my "Share to anyone with link" option is greyed out and de-selected, sometimes it is selected. I am going nuts! We need this fixed!
We are an education customer and have been having the same exact problem. We are just using regular version of Forms (not Pro) and things were good until last week. I opened a support ticket with Microsoft early Thursday (after user complaints) but so far no response from the Forms Team (they also don't work weekends) back to the support folks assigned to my ticket. The Forms Team has data that I provided to them. Originally there was a service outage on early Friday for admins that they thought should have resolved (FM192342.)
I've replied to posts in TechNet and Answers.microsoft.com as other customers have the same problem.
Maybe if the setting wasn't automatically flipping back and forth it would be easier for them to troubleshoot ?
As an admin I've verified all settings (we didn't make any changes) and it seems if we could get someone on the Forms Team to work with us directly, it should be easily isolated/solved. We were doing a big push to move away from other tools but this isn't good (my users, went back to competitor products on Friday due to needing data collected...."at least they work"). Maybe because we're education (vs commercial/business) customers, it's not being treated seriously ?
The earliest I may get an update is tomorrow morning Pacific Time). Feel free to reference my MS Ticket 16970965 in your dealings with Microsoft Support.
I'm also in an education environment struggling with these same issues. I also have a post on technet, no resolution yet! Lavan Jeeva
