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Modern Attachments - Cannot set perms
This issue is resolved with build 1711 8730.2175.
This relates to the "Direct" setting for the OneDrive for Business default sharing links. It works fine if you switch to Internal. I was told by MS PMs at Ignite that it must be set on direct for the default sharing permission to be "Recipients can edit" rather than "Organization can edit."
"Direct" means that no additional permissions are applied while creating the link, hence only users that already have the correct permissions will be able to access the item.
"Internal" means that everyone in the tenant will be able to access the item using the copied link.
The wording is misleading and doesn't behave as described. If I have direct selected then the default permission for modern attachments in OWA is "Recipient's can edit" and it works as expected. If I change that to Internal the default permission behavior in both OWA and Outlook is "Everyone in the org can edit." I talked with several MS PMs while in Orlando at Ignite and have been emailing them since about how to properly change the default behavior for modern attachments, Direct is the setting they had me choose. For this Outlook issue they advised opening a Premier case, I wasn't getting an answer from Premier quick enough so that is why I decided to share here.
Adding StephenRice
- StephenRice
Microsoft
Hi Mike Tilson,
Thanks for reporting this here. You are correct that setting the default link to "direct" should cause the modern/cloud attachment to default to "Recipients can edit". Let me look into this and see if we can figure out what's going on. Thanks!
Stephen Rice
