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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.
I agree here with Anders and I have not noted this before, but the sharing feature should also work with SharePoint Groups as It did in the past...the "old" sharing dialog allowed to share with SharePoint Groups and behind the scenes, the sharing functionality just managed all the stuff to send the sharing e-mail to the users / e-mail enabled security groups added to the SharePoint Group...so to me, this is clearly a step back when sharing information in SPO. StephenRice any hints here?
