{"id":1514,"date":"2020-08-24T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inswwdev.azurewebsites.net\/au\/insights\/uncategorized\/an-overview-of-onedrive-sharing\/"},"modified":"2020-08-24T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T01:00:00","slug":"an-overview-of-onedrive-sharing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insentragroup.com\/nz\/insights\/geek-speak\/modern-workplace\/an-overview-of-onedrive-sharing\/","title":{"rendered":"An Overview of OneDrive Sharing"},"content":{"rendered":"

WHAT\u2019S THIS ALL ABOUT?<\/h3>\n

Once it is adopted, OneDrive can fast become one of an organizations most valuable tools.\u00a0 It can replace home drives on typical file shares, freeing <\/span>up storage resources in the datacenter<\/span> and improving the ability to recover documents.\u00a0 One of its biggest strengths is the ability to quickly share files from both the desktop and the web client.\u00a0 This is not only useful to improve productivity, but also helps prevent multiple copies of the same<\/span> file from existing in emails, d<\/span>a major blow to the \u201cfile version hell\u201d, which most have grown accustomed to when sharing documents. <\/span><\/p>\n

Because OneDrive\u2019s backbone is SharePoint Online (and each OneDrive is considered an individual Site within SharePoint Online) the sharing settings for both are very closely related and interlinked.\u00a0 There are multiple settings which can be configured, including the default type of sharing link, who a file can be shared with externally and incorporates additional advanced external sharing settings.<\/span><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s start with <\/span>the basics.<\/span><\/p>\n

DEFAULT LINK TYPE<\/h3>\n

This setting applies to both SharePoint and OneDrive, unfortunately it is not possible to have different settings for each.\u00a0 This will define the type of link, which is selected by default when sharing items, the following types are available:<\/span><\/p>\n