Microsoft has cnfirmed to me that they have withdrawn the feature to make some changes. They will relaunch expiration date support for all sharing links when they’ve taken care of whatever needs to be done.

It’s gone from our tenant too. I’ll be curious about what MS has to say about this. Hope it comes back working correctly.

The feature has disappeared from my tenant too. Microsoft hasn’t said anything publicily that I can track down, so I assume that they withdrew the feature because it had some problems that they couldn’t easily fix. I have asked the development group to comment. They might or might not say anything.

I have reported the same issue to Microsoft – so far no valid feedback.
As it seems Microsoft has now completely deactivated setting an expiration date for all links.

Based on your observations, I did some specific tests and saw the exact same behaviour:
– “Send” button: No expiry date
– “Copy link” then close window => Expiration date working if you use the copied link

I also tested the combined approach:
– Set an expiration date + Apply
– Copy Link
– Send

Result:
– Expiration date works if you use the copied link (or the link you can copy in Manage Access => Links)
– Expiration date DOES NOT work if you use the link provided in the email sent by Sharepoint

Really hoping that Microsoft fix this and also more clearly display the expiration dates of links (instead of a very tiny “calendar” icon).

Yes, we will report it.
I will post a follow-up when we get response.

Did you report this behavior to Microsoft to have them check it out? That’s the only way to get a problem onto the docket for the engineering group to look at.

In most cases the normal logical thing to do is people will just set the date, click “Apply” and then just “send”, resulting in a sharing link with no expiry date.
Do any others see this behaviour in their tenant?

It’s a per-link setting that can’t exceed the maximum expiration period set for the tenant.

NO, I didn’t see anything.