At Ignite we announced a major improvement to the way secure external sharing of files and folders works in both OneDrive and SharePoint in Office 365 and we wanted to share what this means for users...
Updated Jun 25, 2020
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Hi
Can anyone expand on the methods by which a user can initiate sharing such that the old "MS account required" sharing method is used?
Assume we just want to share a document but such that the external person can use full word - not word online.
Here are the methods that have been mentioned.
1. Share a site. Works but a) maybe you did not want to share the entire site and b) the external then has access to see who else is on the site, share it themselves etc. I made a simple site specifically for the purpose but don't want anyone invited this way to gain access to see others. Currently with this method all externals would be able to to "send to all".
2. Use the "Grant Access" method. From my testing this does not work on single documents 0 the new pin verification method is used.
3. Add the external to an O365 group. Doesn't that have the same issue as method 1?
Thanks