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Jack_B_ZA
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Jul 27, 2021

One Drive Context Menu Share Button Missing!

Good Day All,   So I manage an enterprise account which has one drive for business. Recently I have noticed that users complain about the "Share" Context Menu Item is missing! I can confirm it is m...
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MAS-PLK
Copper Contributor
Feb 05, 2022
I have this same exact issue, however its isolated to Windows 11. Searching some other post I see several resolved the issue by disabling UAC restarting and/or enabling UAC & restarting then however this did not work for me as I already had it disabled when I upgraded from Win10 to Win11.
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nassoo
Copper Contributor
Feb 16, 2022

I have the same problem in Windows 11. I tried every single solution I found in internet (except to delete the user and recreate it again) and nothing helped. It's just the buggy Microsoft software... At least I came to a workaround - I noticed that if I open the location of the OneDrive.lnk file and right-click on it some magic happens and the OneDrive context menu starts working. So I copied OneDrive.lnk to the root of my OneDrive folder, now when I right click it the functionality comes back.
Microsoft, it's a shame - your own cloud service doesn't work correctly on your own OS!

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    daverw66
    Copper Contributor
    Dec 29, 2022

    nassoo Hi, where would I expect to find the onedrive.lnk file?  I've searched for onedrive.lnk in file explorer and nothing shows up.

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      MAS-PLK
      Copper Contributor
      Dec 29, 2022

      daverw66 

       

      I believe its just a shortcut icon that you shorten the name on.

       

       

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        daverw66
        Copper Contributor
        Dec 30, 2022

        MAS-PLK HI, yes I thought it would just be a shortcut but I don't have one.  If I create one the target is "C:\Users\xxxxx\OneDrive" is that the target that is in the shortcut mentioned in this thread?  If so it doesn't work for me or is the target something that OneDrive created when installed?

         

        Thanks

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    adenman
    Copper Contributor
    May 04, 2022
    nassoo's workaround is working for us! Like he said, no other options (UAC or installing for /allusers) worked, but this does.

    The one issue is it doesn't seem to last for very long, so make sure to put it somewhere easy for the user to get to.
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      MAS-PLK
      Copper Contributor
      May 04, 2022

      adenman thanks for the advice. Appreciate the follow up. 

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    alexanderhunter1490
    Copper Contributor
    Feb 24, 2022
    This workaround actually also worked for me - thanks!!
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        alexanderhunter1490
        Copper Contributor
        Feb 24, 2022
        No, sorry. The threading here doesn’t work like I was expecting. UAC had no impact for me whatsoever. But copying a OneDrive.lnk in the main folder miraculous worked. Very odd behavior. I had this issue for many weeks now and so far, this workaround shows good results.
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    MAS-PLK
    Copper Contributor
    Feb 16, 2022

    nassoo I'll likely get this escalated with Microsoft directly since we haven't heard anything back from the community forum with any of the official Microsoft personnel. Unfortunately, I have to speak with our managed service provider to do the escalation since I am not a global admin in our Microsoft Admin Center. I have a meeting with them today so I will raise the question. They have multiple clients... somebody must have reported the same symptoms. I'll keep you posted with what I learn later on today. 

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      nassoo
      Copper Contributor
      Feb 16, 2022
      Thanks a lot! I'll be very grateful if you share the news 🙂

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