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Björn Nettingsmeier
Brass Contributor
Jan 10, 2019
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Share to "People with existing access" breaks role inheritance

Hi everyone,   we figured out a behavior with sharing items/documents in SharePoint which from our point of view is a bug.   Let us assume that the user "Jon Doe" is the owner of a SharePoint Sit...
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  • StephenRice's avatar
    StephenRice
    Jan 15, 2019

    Hi all,

     

    The bad news is that this is unexpected. When sharing with a "People with existing access link", it should only send the user a canonical URL and it definitely shouldn't permission the user to the item.

     

    The good news is that a fix is already rolling out and so this should go away shortly :)

     

    Thanks!

     

    Stephen Rice

    OneDrive Program Manager II

KevinCrossman's avatar
KevinCrossman
MVP
Jan 10, 2019

I believe this is working as intended by MS. (I'm with you - I don't like it either).

Björn Nettingsmeier's avatar
Björn Nettingsmeier
Brass Contributor
Jan 11, 2019

And additionally, within our concrete use case, only site owners are allowed to share documents to people outside the site collection. Now when a member of the site uses the SHARE button just to inform another member that a document has changes, a workflow will always kickoff an approval e-mail for the owners because of the item permissions that have to be changed (disgusting!!)

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