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Rob Ellis
Bronze Contributor
Sep 01, 2021

'Add shortcut to OneDrive' no longer includes site name in shortcut - just library name

I've seen what appears to be a change rolling out, in 2 tenants so far.   When adding a shortcut to OneDrive, it used to name the shortcut as 'library name - site name' - but now it is just naming ...
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FHWeb
Copper Contributor
Apr 28, 2023

RaleNinoki 

We are also experiencing this issue.  The first shortcut added has the Document library name - SharePoint site name, but subsequent shortcuts only have the document library name.  Very confusing for people.

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sgideon
Copper Contributor
Aug 15, 2023

Definitely really confusing. Let's say there are two teams "Team A" and "Team B".

Both have a channel called "finances". 

The user adds a shortcut to both. The first folder shows as "finances" and the second as "finances - Team B". In day to day work, it can easily happen, that the user saves files to the folder "finance" instead of the other one, which can be a security risk.

I recently posted a feature request for teams and channels to show up automatically in the native file managers with the logical structure of "Team > Channel" (if the user has the specific access to have). 
https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/945df97d-9337-ee11-a81c-6045bdbbbc93

Please Microsoft do something about it. Imagine it would just work out of the box if a user logs in to an Azure AD joined device :smile:. 

 

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