OneDrive Sharing UI "breaking" "Shared with Me" functionality

Hi Stephen,

Thanks for all the clarifications and the repost of the MC message from "way back" :). 

I think we have proper workarounds in place for now (=SharePoint Admin Center change) to keep the "Shared with Me" functionality alive and working for now.

I'll be interested to hear about future iterations of the Sharing Process, and how it relates to the re-discoverability of shared files/folders apart from initial sharing email. 

Thanx for the help. If users are involved let's keep this as simple as possible.

The last one worked for me.

I have made the change in the SharePoint Admin center

Guy Johnson Totally agree. This is something we're constantly working on. The thinking behind the current design is that we want to allow users to send anonymous access links via e-mail as these are the most user friendly (behave like attachments, don't require complicated sign-in, etc.) but we are definitely hearing feedback that this is having an effect on the Shared With Me experience.

If your test does work out successfully, you can go to the SharePoint admin center, select the "sharing" tab and select "Direct" as the "Default sharing link". This will mean that when your users click "share", we will default to "only specific people" or "only people on the To: line" which should guarantee that resources will show up in SWM.

Hope this helps!

I'll give it a try and report back - but I beleive we are asking an awful lot of our users. They need this to be simple - Click on Share; add names; click share to send it.

If the IT people are having problems how much more for the users???

Guy Johnson, sorry, I meant the option for "only people on the To: line". When you are in the "e-mail" flow, we wanted to adopt more clear "e-mail" terminology. Effectively, this is the same as saying "permission these users to the resource and send them mail with a link to the resource"

That option is not available to me.

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Guy Johnson, can you try the same repro steps but, instead of selecting "People in my company/organization", can you select the top option for "only specific people" and see if that shows up in Shared with Me?

We had an issue with showing documents shared with "people in my organization" links in Shared with Me and we are still investigating the fix.

Thanks!

Stephen

I went to the computer that initiated the share and redid it. I open his OneDrive for Business and selected the folder I want to share; clicked share at the top of the page. I got the Share "Folder Name" box; I clicked on Anyone with this link can edit this item; Selected anyone in My Company; clicked okay. Then I added the names of the people and clicked share.

Went to a users dsktop and clicked on the link in the e-mail and was able to open the file but it was never added to the Shared with me area of OneDrive

Originally I did the first 3 steps and just added the name and share. Same resuly.

What am I doing wrong?? This has my users up in arms.

Temporarily I'm suggesting that they save the e-mail in a folder to get access.

Guy Johnson, when you say that the resource is "shared specifically with them", are you referring to a link was e-mailed directly with the user or the selected link permissions are "only for specific people". If your users are selecting the latter, it should show up in Shared with Me. If not, please let me know so we can investigate. Thanks!

Hi Salvatore

I respectfully disagree with your statement. My users have had the file/folder shared specificaly with them and when they click on the link it doesn't show up in the Shared with me.