OneDrive for Business provides an Administrative Center for controlling if and how users can share documents. What are the requirements for modern attachments?Īs an enterprise administrator, you want to control how your users can share documents with external users. The OneDrive sync clients supports you by providing synchronization capabilities for Team Sites and Shared Folders. Therefore, OneDrive for Business provides Office 365 collaboration with rich integration across products.Īs part of a simplified team collaboration you can access your Team Sites directly from within OneDrive for Business on the web. It is not just a synchronization client or standalone product, but part of an ecosystem. With deep Office integration and its desktop real-time co-authoring and in app sharing, you can start a document on one device and seamlessly finish it on another. The following screenshot shows how easily the sharing permissions are set when composing an email. The list of recent items is synchronized across devices, which makes working with modern Office products to easy. The “recent items” list makes it even simpler to share documents that you’ve recently worked on.

You can even browse and select Microsoft Teams documents. You can easily browse both storage location from within Outlook. The following screenshot shows how to attach a file that is already stored in your personal OneDrive or in your OneDrive for Business location. While adding the link to your document you must decide whether the recipients can edit the document or can access the document in read-only mode only. Instead of attaching documents as classic file copies to an email message you add a document link to your email. Modern attachments is a OneDrive for Business feature that integrates with modern Outlook clients.

Modern attachments provide an easy and secure way for collaborating and sharing of a single copy of a document. This is where modern attachments kick in.

Users do not understand why they cannot send any file to any recipient of their choice. Especially when size limitations for internal and external recipients are different. This behavior is often the source of end user frustration when message size limitations are enforced. In the past and even today, we are used to “share” documents and files by sending copies as email attachments.

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