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Iron Contributor

Nov 13, 2018

Expiring links

We're looking at enabling external sharing from OD4B, and the expiry of links has raised a couple of questions. If we set the expiry, does this affect all links, both internal and external? I pres...

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wroot

Silver Contributor

Nov 13, 2018

Based on my experience and testing "Anyone" link can't be opened if you are logged in with an Office 365 account (or MS account). It shows an error. Anyone links are meant to be opened by a neutral Guest user, which only works if you are not logged in anywhere. To share to anyone in the organization one has to use "People in _organization name_". Such link won't have an expiration and will work when being opened with a logged in Office 365 user (well, it won't work without being logged and will as to login).

ChrisWebbTech

MVP

Nov 13, 2018

You've got something going on with that. I've always been able to use Anon links with others inside the org, they use it all the time without issues, logged in or not. If they are logged in they get extra features for opening in client etc. and also tags the users as "Viewing" / "Editing" the documents and all that.

wroot
Silver Contributor
Nov 13, 2018
It can be some setting causing this, though i can't think of one. It happened on many occasions (usually when someone creates a link to send to external user and then wants to make sure it works and sends the URL to a colleague and it doesn't work, unless that user logs off from Office 365 (also deletes cookies as it will remember you tried to open that link with that user)). At first i thought they were sending the URL from the address bar, not the sharing link, but direct link to OneDrive, but our users only use Windows client most of the time and when i tested it happened to me also. It was a few months ago, maybe something changed. Can't test now as i don't work there anymore.