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People with existing access - why?
Hi mikkele,
Happy to shed some further light here!
The "People with Existing Access" option is often used on Team Sites where users or admins have spent additional time customizing the permissions. In those cases, they may not want to further expand the permissions, but just take advantage of those that exist. It can also be used when sharing particularly sensitive content where you want to ensure that you aren't accidentally giving someone access.
The sliders you are seeing are actually separate from the 4 sharing options in the share dialog. The sliders represent the type of external sharing you want to allow in your organization.
Hope that helps clear things up!
Stephen RiceSenior Program Manager, OneDrive
It's simply used to get the link or generate notification to sent to said users. It doesn't change the permissions.
Guest access is something else altogether.