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Set Default Sharing to "People with Existing Access"
Am trying to set sharing default to "People with Existing Access".
These are the steps I have taken:
1. Set the default sharing link to "Internal"
The result of this is:
2. Next I used Powershell to "Disable Company wide Sharing".
Set-SPOSite -Identity <site-collection> -DisableCompanyWideSharingLinks Disabled
The final result is - see below.
Why is it defaulting to "Specific People" instead of "People with existing Access"?
Hi Gilbert Okello,
We do not support setting the default to people with existing access. When the default link is not available, we set the default to the next supported default link (which in the case above, is specific people). If this is a capability you're interested, I'd suggest submitting this to onedrive.uservoice.com to help us prioritize the work. Thanks!
Stephen Rice
OneDrive Program Manager II
- Matthew DiLibertoBrass Contributor
This is causing a lot of issues for us as well. I voted for this topic on UserVoice.
We just need Microsoft to add another option... i can't imagine that this would take long to include "People with Existing Access" in a future update:
- Martin FrontBrass Contributor
Seems to be the same in Onedrive-admin console as well..
Seems like microsoft has forgot something ;)
- StephenRiceMicrosoft
Hi Gilbert Okello,
We do not support setting the default to people with existing access. When the default link is not available, we set the default to the next supported default link (which in the case above, is specific people). If this is a capability you're interested, I'd suggest submitting this to onedrive.uservoice.com to help us prioritize the work. Thanks!
Stephen Rice
OneDrive Program Manager II
- Alberto SchiavonBrass Contributor
Dear Stephen,
This is causing a lot of confusion, because "Share" and "Copy link" are perceived by users with a very different meaning and most of the times the latter is used with the intention to provide a link to people with existing access.
Furthermore, as reported here, there is the problem of (unexpected and undesired) breaking permissions inheritance.
In conclusion I see several issues introduced by the recent changes:
1. Can't get anymore a "restricted link", a simple and readable url that can be easily shared with people with existing access
2. The default link depends on a combination of different settings but cannot be set to "People with existing access"
3. If the default link type turns out to be "Anyone" or "Anyone in your org with the link" when a user clicks on "Get a link" (with any intention) the default link will be immediately created, breaking the permissions inheritance, which is most of the times undesired and confusingPossible improvements:
1. "Copy link" should not be used to change permissions, but just provide a link for those who already has access
2. Otherwise, "Copy link" should always be set by default to "people with existing access" and explicitly changed every time if the need is to grant unique permissionsThanks