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OneDrive share link for folders to external without login
A user willingly came to see me to look at the possibility of switching from GoogleDrive to OneDrive for a team of 20. I was pumped, getting our users to move to OneDrive is difficult enough, so someone coming in looking for it was a surprise. Our discussion however started almost as quickly as it begun, when we tried to perform a simple folder sharing a link to external people without requiring them to login. Read that line again carefully. It's not possible!! What should be so trivial... I couldn't believe it, i got out my client, and tried to create a share link for external R&W permissions without login.. Needless to say, Google won again, and have been doing this simple feature for ages..
- It's coming soon in the roadmap ...
http://fasttrack.microsoft.com/roadmap?filters=onedrive%20for%20business#I-51699
I was always quite pleased that this wasn't possible, sharing a file is a positive action to share a known quantity. Sharing a folder means that anything already, or anything put there in the future becomes available. I hope they find a way to make sure users know a folder is shared however they get files into the folder.
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In one of my tenants I have an update from my OneDrive. And now I have the possibility to share a folder with an extarnal without login. (Sorry for the Dutch screenshot)
- I would like to see that happen
- StephenRice
Microsoft
Hi Andrew,
This is a very common request from customers and, as Steven mentioned previously, this is a feature we are currently working on delivering. We will first be delivering the ability to get company shrareable links to folders (i.e. "available to users in Contoso only") with anonymous links (i.e. no sign-in required) to follow after. Thanks for the feedback! - It's coming soon in the roadmap ...
http://fasttrack.microsoft.com/roadmap?filters=onedrive%20for%20business#I-51699
I was always quite pleased that this wasn't possible, sharing a file is a positive action to share a known quantity. Sharing a folder means that anything already, or anything put there in the future becomes available. I hope they find a way to make sure users know a folder is shared however they get files into the folder.- This is still not working. I share a link and try it on different machine and first thing that happens is to redirect me to sign in page. Why can't you make is as simple as Dropbox
- StephenRice
Hi Adam Kuszczak,
I'm sorry to hear you're having issues! Can you paste a screenshot of the sharing dialog for when you are trying to share the folder? Thanks!
Stephen Rice
OneDrive Program Manager II
