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Iron Contributor

Jan 09, 2019

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Set Default Sharing to "People with Existing Access"

StephenRice , Stephen Rose 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 ...

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StephenRice
Jan 09, 2019
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

StephenRice

Microsoft

Mar 31, 2020

Hi Frank McDermott,

You can now set People with Existing Access as the default link type for any site collection via PowerShell and this should be available in the modern SharePoint Admin Center soon! We'll continue to listen to feedback here around how we can make further improvements though! Thanks!

Stephen Rice

Senior Program Manager, OneDrive

Swapna Nethi

Copper Contributor

Jun 03, 2020

StephenRice

Can you please provide me the exact command to set this option?

Also is it possible to set using ApplyPnPprovisioningtemplate? If so any pointers?

I have hundreds of sites which need this to be set .

StephenRice
Microsoft
Jun 03, 2020
Sure Swapna Nethi !

Exact command would be:

Set-SPOSite -Identity YourSiteURLHere -DefaultLinkToExistingAccess $true

I'm not super familiar with the PnP side of things and I don't think this is available via that path (but not 100% on that). Thanks!

Stephen Rice

Senior Program Manager, OneDrive