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Copper Contributor

Mar 06, 2019

'Copy Link' and 'Share' creating too many unique permissions to manage

Looking for some advice on managing the enormous amount of unique permissions created by the 'copy link' and 'share' functionality? Even when our team selects the link option as 'People with existing...

Iron Contributor

Aug 01, 2019

Amy_TactixIn order to get the 'People with existing access' by default with 'Copy link', you need to change: SharePoint Admin Center > Sharing > Default link > Specific people.

I wrote about it here: https://ktnnsharepoint.wordpress.com/2019/08/01/share-copy-link-sharepoint-online/

Does anybody know if it is possible to get the direct link to a file?

This
https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/SiteComm/Shared%20Documents/flower.docx

Instead of
https://contoso.sharepoint.com/:w:/r/sites/SiteComm/Shared%20Documents/flower.docx?d=w08094221db864a8484da936d6e35d445&csf=1&e=rXRM61

Like in the Quick link Web Part when selecting a file.

Ben Liesfeld

Copper Contributor

Feb 08, 2020

kmktnn, Thanks so much for documenting this! Unbeliable! I almost went crazy trying to fix this. How would you ever suspect that setting the default to "Specific People" would be the right choice?

I noticed that you made an amendment stating that there should be a global option to set the default to "People with existing access". This option has not appeard in my O365 yet. I suppose they are still rolling this out.

StephenRice
Microsoft
Feb 10, 2020
Hi Ben Liesfeld,

Since this post kicked off, we've actually added the ability to directly set the default sharing link type (whether you click on "Share" or "Copy Link") to People with Existing Access. You can run this on a per-site collection basis using the Set-SPOSite powershell command. Hope that helps!

Stephen Rice

Senior Program Manager, OneDrive