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cr2007

Copper Contributor

Nov 07, 2020

Unable to Get Link for MS Teams directly, getting SharePoint instead

Hey Everyone! For the past couple of weeks, I have been using the 'Get Link' feature in MS Teams to directly share the link to my peers so that they can directly access the link from Teams without...

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cr2007
Nov 20, 2020
PDostiyar
Alright so I checked MS Teams today
And it has been resolved
I am able to see the Teams link too
It has been solved
Probably you may need to check with your IT Administrators.

cr2007

Copper Contributor

Nov 19, 2020

CheWeigand
True, but earlier, we had an option for either taking a Teams link, or a SharePoint one. (as attached from an image found online before that feature vanished)

Even though the file was originally stored in SharePoint.

Now, we're not given the initial option. which doesn't help
If I were to link it to a message I put within Teams, it should take me to the document within the app instead of redirecting me to an external page (which sort of ruins the idea in the first place)

I had put this in another Microsoft Forum (answers.microsoft.com) from where I got this answer:

I would advise you to check with your team and see everyone experiencing the same behaviour, if so please contact your IT administrator and make sure that there has not been any recent change to Organization external sharing policy.

If this issue has impacted your tenant then IT administrator can open a case with dedicated Microsoft team to look further in this:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/...

Here is the link to that discussion: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msteams/forum/msteams_tfe-msteams_file-msteams_findfile/unable-to-copy-link-from-ms-teams-getting/a406c576-0237-4f2a-92c8-2fbe3d82e173?messageId=77d4c782-177f-4963-8138-ad2b553773b9&page=1

~CR

CheWeigand

Iron Contributor

Nov 19, 2020

cr2007

I understand what you are saying. You have files in a Teams group that contains files. You want to send a link to that file to another Team member and have that file open in Teams, NOT SharePoint.

Here is my Test:

Opened a Team where I am a Owner.
Went to a channel and clicked on Files.
Right clicked on a file and 'Copy link'.
Opened a Teams Chat with a test account.
Posted the link I copied into a conversation.
Opened the link from the Chat
1. File opened in Teams.
Sent the copied link to different account via Outlook email.
1. Clicked the received link
2. File opened in SharePoint

Don't know how you are sharing links, or if you are sharing links with members of the Team that the file came from, but it seems that if the link is shared within Teams, the file opens in Teams. Using the link externally causes the file to open in SharePoint.

cr2007
Copper Contributor
Nov 19, 2020
CheWeigand
I did steps 1-4 (Step 4 I put it in a hyperlink in a Teams message also)

4. Posted the link in the chat
5. I click on the link (in Teams)
6. A new window opens on my browser, opening that file there instead of opening it within Teams

I get the same outcome as you mentioned in Step 7.
- CheWeigand
  Iron Contributor
  Nov 19, 2020
  cr2007
  Ahhhhh. I did this test in the desktop version of Teams (Microsoft Teams Version 1.3.00.28779), and it sounds like you are using the browser version of Teams.
  
  Is this the case?
  Thanks
  - cr2007
    Copper Contributor
    Nov 19, 2020
    Only Desktop (Version 1.3.00.28779 (64 bit) )
    I also tried the web version initially to see if it was only an issue with the Desktop App.
    Turns out it was an issue in both.