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Quirk with "anyone can view" links
My organization posts "anyone can view" links to our website, and we've noticed that while these links work fine for "anonymous" users, users logged into O365 at the same that try to view the documents behind those links get an "Access Denied" screen with a request for permission. The document libraries these documents are hosted in grant read/write privileges to very few of our users, so I suspect what's happening is anyone logged in as an O365 user in our organization isn't being treated as "anyone" anymore, but rather a user that doesn't have read rights to those document libraries. Is this correct? Regardless, does anyone have any ideas (granting my org read rights to these libraries is a last resort) on how to prevent authenticated users from being blocked by documents with "anyone can view" links?
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Should've mentioned, we do test those links with incognito/inprivate browsing before posting. They always work as a true anonymous user, it's when an O365 user is authenticated that we have accessibility issues. The workaround I've been sharing is to open document URLs as incognito, but I'm hoping for something a little better.
