Planner and Permissions – a quick decision tree

Jim Ongena — Sat, 21 Nov 2020 22:09:21 +0000

When people are using Teams, they often are confronted with the way permissions and apps are integrated. In this post I’m specifically going to look at using Planner in combination with Teams.

The default scene

Let’s start easy, the standard approach is where a user is member of an existing Teams and wants to add a Planner Tab. This is easy to do using following steps:

Navigate to your Teams
Select the +-icon to add a new tab
Select the Planner

Give your Planner a name

Click Save, and your tab is added

You see, so easy to create a new Planner tab. Advantage here is that the newly created Planner automatically inherits permissions from the Teams’ Group.

The scenes where they ask you ‘why doesn’t it work’

And of course you’ll get those calls from users who want to make Plans in the strangest combinations, and who do not want to understand some of the limitations. To make it easier to explain, I’ve drawn up a decision tree:

Conclusion

When users ask you to create them a new Plan, ask the right questions so that you don’t run into problems further down the line.

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Understanding how Share-links are built in SharePoint and OneDrive

Jim Ongena — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 21:49:41 +0000

I recently got multiple questions from several customers regarding the way the Share-links are being built in SharePoint and OneDrive. Now for the most part it’s easy to explain, but when going through the link, I noticed that things had changed since I looked at this the last time.

Sharing files with people

With Office 365 sharing has become easier than ever before. Both in SharePoint and OneDrive Microsoft is pushing the use of sharing links instead of copying files (which from an information management perspective is the best way to go).

Now the moment that you shared something, you’ll notice that a special URL is generated, such as:

https://.sharepoint.com/:u:/s/Playground/EaGfaDqQredKm8HIr6LlMQEBJm9f4s0iVsghQDEnEUlLGQ?e=hreQk4

https://.sharepoint.com/:u:/s/Playground/ER36Ag-lsyxOpo6YHV1E-bMBxtauCdbdo-SMHCnrQXqjtQ?e=szirtB

Digging into the URL-structure

The structure of this url isn’t a complete coincidence (or what were you thinking). You’ll notice that within the URL there are specific blocks:

In this link we can see following components:

A. The first part is the URL of your tenant and is also the already present main site collection URL

B. This part defines the type of document you are sharing.

b – pdf-files
f – folder
o – Onenote file
p – powerpoint file
t – txt-file
u – web page link, audio files, visio, zip, publisher, mail, and all other file types which have no dedicated letter
v – video files
w – word-document
x – excel-file

C. the third part defines the type of sharing which is being used

s – the file being shared is only to be read, there is no distinction whether the file can be downloaded or not
r – restricted sharing with people which already have access to the file.

D. If the shared file resides in a specific site, the name of that site will be shown here. There is not difference made if the file library is in a site collection top level, or in a subsite

E. A 24-character anonymized reference to the file you want to share. If you shared the item with people who already have access, this is replaced with the path to the file (library/filename).

F. An internal character set to define further details regarding the sharing. If the item was shared to one specific user, the set contains less characters, but an extra parameter ‘email’ is added containing the mail-adress to which is was shared.

E. This parameter section is added by default behind each share-link.

d= xxxx – this will help creating a unique URL to allow opening the file in the browser. If you remove this parameter, you’ll get a download request. This parameter is only added when you share with People with existing access.
Csf=1 – added when sharing with People with existing access
Web=1 – opens the file in the browser
E= xxxx – The purpose of this parameter isn’t really known; if you remove it, the Share will work the same way.

The fun part is that in most cases the parameters can be removed from the url, and it will just keep on working .

I hope this post was of value, if you would have any remarks or idea’s, just get in touch.

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