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StephenRice
Microsoft
MicrosoftChange to ODB/SPO sharing dialog specific people option
Hi all,
Based on feedback, we're making a small update to how the new sharing dialog works with the "Specific People" option.
You may recall that we previously had two people pickers in the dialog: One to select who the sharing link work for and another to choose who to actually send the link to. We have eliminated the first people picker and have folded the functionality together. Here's a quick example:
When "Specific People" is selected as the default link type, users will no longer need to open the Links settings page to choose who they want to share with. This change is rolling out now and should be available in all organizations by the end of the day.
Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks!
Stephen Rice
OneDrive Program Manager II
We'd REALLY like to have this default to "People with existing access" in SP. It is messing with our preferred approach in SharePoint of keeping specific user assignment in security to a minimum. We cannot convince our users with permissions that every time they want to send a file link, they need to change the link type, and we end up with people who already have access via group membership now having specific named access.
- StephenRice
Hi Brent Hawthorne,
We have this work on our backlog but don't have a timeline to offer. The best thing you can do to help us prioritize the work is to make or vote up a request on user voice.
In the short term, one other option you can explore is turning off the "members can share" feature on your team sites. Once disabled, only the owners can add new people which may help reduce oversharing cases. Thanks!
Stephen Rice
OneDrive Program Manager II
- Hi Stephen
Do you have any news about this feature? I was looking today to set "People with existing access" as default, but still not possible.
Thank you and kind regards
Ivo
- StephenRice
Tagging jcgonzalezmartin and Andrew Silcock as I know they were both interested in this change :)
- Thanks very much for looking into this and letting us know Stephen.
I will have a test this morning and let you know. Initial testing looks good though.
One thing we're wondering, is it going to be possible in the future to change the default option so that when clicking on Share and Copy, it defaults to "People with existing access" - Only people who already have access can use this link? We're currently able to change it to default to all other options but this one. Presumably, because this option isn't available in OneDrive, it makes it harder to implement?- You can change the default at the tenant from OneDrive Admin > Sharing > Default Sharing Links and select 'Direct'. I am not aware of a way change the default at the user level.
- Thanks for this update Stephen!!! I will blog about it as soon as I seen on my tenants :-).
