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Can't open document shared with me in Word desktop application
I have access to an organisation's SharePoint Online environment via the partner access option. I can open Office documents in the browser, but when I try to open in the desktop applications, I just ...
Any idea how Access Control settings for the SharePoint Online tenant the document is shared from are configured? There's the option to configure limited (web-only) access from unmanaged devices.
See this blog for more information:
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/wbaer/2017/10/08/site-scoped-conditional-access-policies-in-sharepoint-online/
paulpascha - it looks like this requires an Enterprise Mobility + Security license to configure, so this setting isn't available in this client's tenant:
Deleted - thanks for confirming it works for you. Are you accessing the tenant using a Office 365 partner account, or purely as an invited user?
Not sure what a partner account is, I've done it over being invited as a guest to a group / team, and just invited direct using old sharing / access dialog in SharePoint.