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주현 김
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Nov 16, 2016
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Any plan for password protected link share?

I am sending my onedrive files to various client through anonymouse view link. Tricky to invite every cusmoters everytime.   Anyway, my supplier is using Box, and they are using password protectio...
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  • StephenRice's avatar
    StephenRice
    Nov 21, 2016

    Hi all,

     

    I just wanted to pop-in and let you know that we are looking at password protected links now. We don't have a timeframe that we can share yet but this is definitely a feature we want to get into everyone's hands. Thanks!

     

    Stephen Rice

    OneDrive Program Manager

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jcgonzalezmartin
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Nov 17, 2016
I see it...well, the number of votes is quite high but I guess more votes are required so the status can change to Accepted suggestion
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StephenRice
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Nov 21, 2016

Hi all,

 

I just wanted to pop-in and let you know that we are looking at password protected links now. We don't have a timeframe that we can share yet but this is definitely a feature we want to get into everyone's hands. Thanks!

 

Stephen Rice

OneDrive Program Manager

  • Kyle Chapin's avatar
    Kyle Chapin
    Copper Contributor
    Sep 23, 2017

    Stephen,

    We're coming up on a year since you said you were working on this.

    Any update?  I don't understand why this isn't a huge priority...

    So please respond with an update. 

    Thank you

    • StephenRice's avatar
      StephenRice
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      Sep 27, 2017
      Hi Kyle,

      We've been making great progress and will have more to share soon. We've been focused primarily on the new secure externals sharing flow that we just announced at Ignite. You can check out a preview of that in the Jeff Teper SharePoint and OneDrive keynote and the Jason Moore OneDrive Past, Present and Future session from yesterday.

      Thanks!

      Stephen Rice
      OneDrive Program Manager II
      • Markus Davidsson's avatar
        Markus Davidsson
        Copper Contributor
        Apr 16, 2018
        Any updates for this?
  • jcgonzalezmartin's avatar
    jcgonzalezmartin
    MVP
    Nov 23, 2016

    Nice to know, thanks for the update!

    • Steven Collier's avatar
      Steven Collier
      MVP
      Nov 23, 2016

      I don't understand, if you have an email with both a link and a password, how is that different from jsut a link. The link is unique, like the password.

       

      If the password was sent by some other mechanism it would mean something

      • 주현 김's avatar
        주현 김
        Iron Contributor
        Nov 23, 2016

         

        having password makes you have one more control.

         

        Think about document for mass deploy which needs limited access control.

        Inviting 100 ppls and make them to create MS account is something I do not want to.

        Currently only way to do this is make link that everybody can see and mail them.

         

        But what if I need to narrow down 100ppl to 50ppl? Rather than making another anonymous link, I would prefer just chaning password and let them know.

         

        Plus, if somebody else in my tenant see that document and link permission, it only says "anonymous can see". It sure makes confusion determining document's sharing policy.