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Restricted Link in New SPO Sharing Interface
We got the updated "Sharing" interface in SharePoint Online in our organization this week. We are an educational institution and while all our users (students and faculty/staff) are all in our Office...
Hi Stewart Foss,
We made a slight behavior change to the "restricted link" option by allowing users to add more people to the document at the same time. Selecting that type of link and entering no name is equivalent to the old model, though we totally agree it's a little weird.
On a SharePoint site, we actually have a 4th option called "People with existing access only" which is identical to the specific people link except that it doesn't allow you to add new people. To confirm, the screenshots above are from OneDrive for Business, correct?
We've been discussing if it makes sense to have that 4th option in ODB as well so I'll forward this thread along internally so can discuss more.
Also, Salvatore Biscari described the correct way to set the "default link" that will show up to users when they click share.
Thanks for the feedback!
Stephen Rice
OneDrive Program Manager II
You can set the default to "Direct - only people who already have permission" in the OneDrive Admin Center:
Then, you should see the following:
And that's all...
Hi,
We have the same issue in SharePoint online. On all our site collections we had the default choice as "share with people with existing acces" at once the default was changed to "share with specific people" and it is no longer possible to set the other one as the default since it is not visible as an option in the admin center. Was this caused by an update or something?
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People with existing access was not ever available as a default sharing option (to my knowledge at least). You could set "specific people" as an option though. Thanks!
Stephen Rice
OneDrive Program Manager II
StephenRiceThans for the reply. I'd like to provide you with soma additional info; as you can see we have both options existing alongsite each other in our SharePoint Online sites/libraries. The red "people with existing acces" and the orange "specific people" (sorry for the Dutch). The red "people with existing acces" used to be the default untill now. In the admin center there are only 3 options
1) direct-specific people
2) internal-people within the organisation
3) anonymous: everyone with te link
so it seems that the change in the description of setting 1 caused the red "people with existing acces" to no longer work and shifted the default to the orange "specific people". However both of them are still visible in the libraries which is confusing for users.
