Send A Link To A File Or Folder

Users can send links to files and folders to their colleagues through the File Explorer context menu. Users can choose whether the linked file should open in its associated application, be highlighted in Windows File Explorer, or open in the web browser. For Office documents, users can choose to have the document opened read only or in presentation mode (for PowerPoint documents).

To send a link, right click the file or folder in File Explorer, open the Zee Drive menu and choose the send link option.

The send link option is available from the File Explorer context menu

There are different link options users can choose from. Read only ensure the document cannot be overwritten when the link is clicked.

After clicking the Next button, users can choose whether to copy the link to the clipboard or to send via an email. Clicking the blue link will test it out before they send it.

Clicking the Open Email button will open a new email in Outlook with the link ready to send.

When a user clicks on a read only link, in this example it is a Word document, Word will open the document for read only as can be seen in the title bar of Word.

Links can be copied and pasted in to documents such as Word or Excel.

For a recipient user to successfully open the link in File Explorer or in the associated desktop application, they will need to be running Zee Drive and have the same network drive mapped. In the case of a link to a shared OneDrive for Business file or folder, Zee Drive will automatically resolve the path to the file or folder in the shared with me drive.

When Zee Drive is installed on a personal computer, Zee Drive creates an entry in the user's registry hive to indicate to Microsoft Office that the Zee Drive URI protocol is to be trusted. This means that when a user clicks a Zee Drive link (one starting with zeedrive:) in an Office application, Office will hand the link over to Zee Drive to open without warning the user.

For hot desk computers and desktop servers the Zee Drive URI protocol will not be trusted by Office by default so the appropriate registry entry will need to be created via Group Policy if you want to avoid the warning from Office when a link is clicked.

The registry key that will need to be created to trust the Zee Drive URI protocol is HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\Security\Trusted Protocols\All Applications\zeedrive:

Zee Drive provides two command line options that can be used to create or remove the trusted URI protocol entry in the registry. Refer to the Zee Drive command line usage guide for more information.

In the case of a web link (https) that opens in the web browser, Zee Drive does not need to be running on the recipient's computer as the link will open in their default web browser.

For a step-by-step guide, refer to Sending A Link