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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 some...
- 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.
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.
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
Microsoft
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
so I think it depends on how large the file to share is. For small files it starts download the second you go to url. For large files, I guess it takes a while to initialize download so the redirect kicks in first.
