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Save/attach from emails in MS Outlook 2016 to SharePoint site
- This is now possible using the Outlook Desktop and modern browsers - take a look: https://jonasbjerke.wordpress.com/2019/09/06/you-can-now-drag-e-mails-from-outlook-directly-to-sharepoint/
Um, Outlook has been able to integrate with SPO/ODFB for a while now, have you looked at "cloudy attachments"? https://blogs.office.com/en-us/2015/11/09/attachments-in-outlook-2016-ready-for-collaboration/
In addition to that, you get a quick "Save to OneDrive" option. Or am I missing something here? Are you talking about On-Prem? If so, the steps to configure integration between SharePoint and Exchange are here: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/exchange/2016/11/03/configure-rich-document-collaboration-using-exchange-server-2016-office-online-server-oos-and-sharepoint-server-2016/
- This looks like the most relevant answer:
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Office-365/Save-email-attachments-from-MS-Outlook-2016-to-SharePoint-site/td-p/16555
I see Juan is on that thread already. Any idea how up to date this information is?Hi
Yes, to clarify, I'm talking about SharePoint Online (not Groups or OneDrive 4 Business)
There are a couple of issues with the current functionality.
1. Saving attachments doesn't seem to have any links to SPO (I get the option to save to OneDrive/OneDrive for Business or Groups, but not SharePoint online sites)
2. Attaching from SharePoint Online gives me the option to attach from 6 recent folders, but not the option to select a different site to attach from.
The thread teslateser refers to does seem to be the most relevant, but is quite old - is there any update on this?
As a general comment, SharePoint/Office integration really does seem to be poor given how long SharePoint (and Office) have been around. We've just about got the ability in Office to save/open files from Sites in Word/PowerPoint/Excel now, but it's a big issue for adoption within organisations when it is so hard to save to SharePoint vs. saving to a file share/local drive. (Which is what people do instead!).
thanks
Angus
Sorry to bump this old thread but I'm hoping to find out why a feature that used to work is still broken after about a year. Attaching files as SPO link rather than local file.
Angus you mentioned in your post 4 years ago that when you wanted to attached a file from SPO and you couldn't see the option to view others sites:
2. Attaching from SharePoint Online gives me the option to attach from 6 recent folders, but not the option to select a different site to attach from.
It appears I'm having the same problem, I only see recent folders but I have multiple sites in my organisation and showing only 6 recent ones does not allow me to attach a SPO file into an email, it only attaches the file as a local version when I drag & drop or choose insert from PC.
I've found a way around it by copying the SPO URL into an email but for end users the option to choose to share as a link or local version no longer works, and I've changed default setting within Outlook settings which makes no difference:
I have raised this with Microsoft through our partner support but 2 weeks in they've got no fix.
Does anyone have a suitable simply solution at all that I can share with end users.
