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"Get a Link" changed to "Copy Link?" When?
Hi Matt Coats,
We changed over to "Copy Link" when we rolled out the new sharing dialog. This has been in-progress for the last two months so your tenant may have seen that changes anytime in that period.
Also, we currently have no feature that allows you to uncheck "Allow editing" by default. Stay tuned though... :)
Stephen Rice
OneDrive Program Manager II
Microsoftadding StephenRice
MicrosoftHi Matt Coats,
We changed over to "Copy Link" when we rolled out the new sharing dialog. This has been in-progress for the last two months so your tenant may have seen that changes anytime in that period.
Also, we currently have no feature that allows you to uncheck "Allow editing" by default. Stay tuned though... :)
Stephen Rice
OneDrive Program Manager II
Hi StephenRice, this is neat functionality. I just need to explain it to my end users so they can start using it. Are you aware of any official Microsoft help pages that describe this? So far, i've only been able to find pages that show the old way of doing this. Thank you!
- Hi Sarah, I think this is what you're after: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Share-SharePoint-files-or-folders-in-Office-365-1fe37332-0f9a-4719-970e-d2578da4941c
- Many thanks Andrew, that's exactly what I was looking for!
Love it! The new wording is very clear. Thank you!
And "Share" has also changed with the similar window. So is "Anyone" = to "Everyone" and "People in [Company]" = to "Everyone except external". Will they continue to map and eventually change to the new name references?
- Hi Stephen, do you know when this will be across everyone's tenant, still no change here? Also, is this going to be changing in OneDrive as well as SharePoint? Thanks!
- This seems to have been pushed across to both our SharePoint and OneDrive sites now, which is great. Definitely easier to understand.
- StephenRice
Andrew Silcock, PBeiler1, glad you're enjoying the feature!
Laurie Gonyea, close, but not quite! "Anyone" is equivalent to an anonymous link (i.e. anyone who possesses the link can access the item) and "People in <Company>" is similar. The "Everyone" and "Everyone except external users" claims are special "objects" in the people picker that map to a set of users. Think of them like pre-built security groups.
Thanks!
Stephen Rice
OneDrive Program Manager II
Thanks for the information. I will eagerly await news of a way to change the default option for editing rights; I would prefer to see that the opportunity for human error this presents is modifiable as soon as possible.
