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Hi all, We need to share a word document with about 500 external people (assume they all have consumer email addresses and aren't Office 365 users in any other tenant). My first thought was just...
- Hi DaithiG
There isn’t licensing costs if simply shared from sharepoint/onedrive.
https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/share-onedrive-files-and-folders-9fcc2f7d-de0c-4cec-93b0-a82024800c07
https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/manage-sharing-with-external-users-in-office-365-small-business-2951a85f-c970-4375-aa4f-6b0d7035fe35
Set to share with anyone with a link. AFAIK they don’t need to register for a Microsoft account however I would quickly double check this by testing with, for example a test gmail account
Hope that answers your question
Best, Chris
Hi DaithiG
There isn’t licensing costs if simply shared from sharepoint/onedrive.
https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/share-onedrive-files-and-folders-9fcc2f7d-de0c-4cec-93b0-a82024800c07
https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/manage-sharing-with-external-users-in-office-365-small-business-2951a85f-c970-4375-aa4f-6b0d7035fe35
Set to share with anyone with a link. AFAIK they don’t need to register for a Microsoft account however I would quickly double check this by testing with, for example a test gmail account
Hope that answers your question
Best, Chris
There isn’t licensing costs if simply shared from sharepoint/onedrive.
https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/share-onedrive-files-and-folders-9fcc2f7d-de0c-4cec-93b0-a82024800c07
https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/manage-sharing-with-external-users-in-office-365-small-business-2951a85f-c970-4375-aa4f-6b0d7035fe35
Set to share with anyone with a link. AFAIK they don’t need to register for a Microsoft account however I would quickly double check this by testing with, for example a test gmail account
Hope that answers your question
Best, Chris
Thanks ChrisHoardMVP I was hoping it would work like that. Sharing a document via OneDrive isn't restricted to the 5:1 guest user limitations are they? That's just for actual guests?
- The 5:1 is to do with guests and leveraging Azure AD features in the tenant such as MFA and Azure AD. The defining article is here
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/b2b/licensing-guidance
In this case you aren’t giving them guests access it’s just external sharing
Hope that answers your question!
Best, Chris