Forum Discussion
'Copy Link' and 'Share' creating too many unique permissions to manage
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?
https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/SiteComm/Shared%20Documents/flower.docx
https://contoso.sharepoint.com/:w:/r/sites/SiteComm/Shared%20Documents/flower.docx?d=w08094221db864a8484da936d6e35d445&csf=1&e=rXRM61
kmktnn There are several ways to get clean URLs that don't break permissions inheritance. You can get the URL from the browser for PDFs, on the File tab for Office documents, you can obtain clean URLs in bulk by exporting a library to Excel and using VB, and finally there are two link options in your Office Profile/Delve. (Where your recently modified documents appear.) Details are at https://jennyssharepointtips.wordpress.com/2019/10/06/sharepoint-online-get-clean-document-urls-bypass-encryption-or-sharing-url/
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
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
- Direct navigation to the file then copy url from url bar I think works. That isn’t a sharing link you copy it’s actually a document I’d to make it movable without breaking the link so you want to use that when possible over direct link.
