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SharePoint Online share feature won't auto-complete Groups
Seems to work fine here, I get results for either the Display Name of the Group/Team or the primary SMTP address. It seems to work too good even, as it surfaces some hidden/system mailboxes :)
Thanks Vasil,
That is promising and led me to have a closer look. The groups types I was using that do not auto-complete in SharePoint's primary share screens are;
- "SharePoint Groups" at the site collection level
- and "Office 365 security groups".
- Synchronized AD security groups
- Office 365 distrubution lists
The following types of groups do auto-complete in the primary sharing screens of Sharepoint
- Office 365 Groups
- Office 365 Mail enabled security groups
I'm not sure why this is inconsistent or whether it is configurable but I have a way forward by choosing the type that works. For the types that work only via information panel \ manage access there are differences too - in whether the person is notified of the share or not.
Thanks
Julian
That's the expected behavior, SharePoint's sharing functionality requires both email (to send the invite) and security-enabled object (so that permissions can be stamped on it), thus it only works with mail-enabled security groups and now Office 365 Groups.
The strange thing is that it used to work and suddenly stopped, at least for us and our customers tenants. I could previously get autocomplete for Office 365 groups when sharing from SharePoint but not anymore.
