Sharing files/folders to a Group does not show up in users "Shared with me" folder.
When sharing a file or folder to an Office 365 Group, the users do not receive an invitation email and they can only access the shared files/folders via a URL link. These shares do not show up under their "Shared with Me" folder. This really defeats the purpose of sharing with a group. The idea is to make sharing with large numbers of users easier. Set up a group, then share with them. Please fix this.
Scotty Huff
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Good suggestion. Working on it…
56 comments
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Aswini
commented
It's literally 2021 and this problem is still there, although I found a work around for easy access, i.e., adding such folder shortcut to "My files". Thanks for raising this issue so long back!
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Matthew Masotti
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It was with the expectation that Security Group assignments would facilitate the recognition of group-specific folder/file permissions that I decided to add OneDrive subscriptions to hundreds of Office365 accounts as a means to share subfolders according to group memberships. I wish knew that this was not possible beforehand.
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Sergei
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That's disappointing. Such a basic (and vital) functionality for an organisation not available after years of customer requests.
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Anonymous
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I am shocked this is not working! I have stopped the whole process of converting to OneDrive because of this issue. Rather outrageous that it's not been addressed since being brought up in 2015.
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Anonymous
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5 years since we have asked for Office 365 to have the same functionality as Windows. Who makes those products again? Score another one for GSuite.
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Anonymous
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We also need this functionality. Please implement.
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Anonymous
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Come on Microsoft, sort out sharing a folder to an AD group and having it show up as "shared" on each member's Android/Desktop/Web client!
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Anonymous
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Agreed, this is what I thought we were getting. Really makes it tough to share to groups this way
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SjoerdV
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While this would be handy to have everything shared with a user or group surfaced in the users OneDrive, you can access the 'Shared with us' page in each Groups SharePoint site, or just search for the content as a 'workaround'
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Anonymous
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As a school of 1600 students, this is vital. I don't like the idea of spending weeks just to add the teachers individually to every student. Why has this not been sorted after so many years?
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Anonymous
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it has been 4 years since this idea was proposed and it is still not possible to see group sharing. For a company sharing solution it was unacceptable. How to manage group sharing with OneDrive
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Emre Erbil
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I have the same issue with that. Even I grant access to a user from Onedrive web portal, the target user is not aware of it. Currently the user's account does not consist of the folder I grant access to her. I want to use Onedrive as a team file server, please fix this. Thanks.
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Anonymous
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Seriously, I've been waiting for this for literally years! Since SharePoint 2013 I've wondered why this feature is missing. Now even with Office365 if I share with a mail universal group synced to the cloud with azure ad sync it still doesn't work!
It's obvious that these properties are searchable, as documents and folders can be searched for by members of the group they are shared with.
Including documents and folders shared to groups in group members shared with me area is essential.
Please implement ASAP!
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Jeremy Sieger
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This is crazy. Should not be a "suggestion", it should have been implemented as part of the original release. Otherwise the "share with Group" is a misleading waste of time. Defeats the entire purpose of the feature if I have to share with each individual for them to be able to see the files in "Shared with Me".
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Scott Holmes
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Please add this feature
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mike
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Need this now.
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Joseph
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This works on Box. Try it.
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Anthony
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Don't think about it, don't work on it, EXECUTE A SOLUTION ALREADY MICROSOFT! This is unacceptable. Basic group sharing is trivial.
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Angelika
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Looking to share a folder in an individual One Drive to members of a group rather than having to share with each person individually. But the members in the group need to be able to see the folders in "shared with me".
Having to use one drive as sharepoint is brutal to save to off of the app on an iPad (child care centre with 12 rooms and staff use iPads - looking for online shared storage solution and open to suggestions because Microsoft has not figured this one out yet?!)
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Dave
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This still doesn't work.
Why is this not part of the basic functionality ?
A new user is created and added to an AD group that has access to shared Folders but cannot see it in shared with me.
How are they supposed to get to this without manually sending them a link?
