Forum Discussion
camha
Nov 13, 2021Copper Contributor
Sharepoint Error: This username may be incorrect for Guest User
Hi all, I am a Sharepoint and O365 admin (not super admin) for my organization. For all our sites the current External sharing setting is: "New and existing guests - Guests must use sign in or prov...
Nov 13, 2021
Difficult to say the exact reason. What has changed could be the introduction of SharePoint and OneDrive integration with Azure AD B2B (leaving the SharePoint external sharing process). I would probably ask the users home org. if all is good with that account. And if so simply delete it from Azure AD and the AAD bin, followed by a re-invitation or manual re-creation. Would probably save some troubleshooting time as well.
- camhaNov 15, 2021Copper Contributor
ChristianJBergstrom thank you! I've tried re-inviting and the user received the following error:
Their organization probably changed their policy recently. I am also informed that their domain is a Microsoft one, so they probably run Azure. Their IT is not very savvy, so I may have to help them.
I've searched for this article about enabling: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/enterprise-users/directory-self-service-signup.
However, I'm not very sufficient with PowerShell, is there a way to make settings in the Azure interface?
Many thanks!!!
- Nov 15, 2021Hello again, try creating this user first instead as previously mentioned. The message indicates that a email invitation isn't allowed. You should perhaps also reach out to your IT administrator and walk through the MsolCompanySettings if the manually created account doesn't work.
https://docs.microsoft.com/sv-se/powershell/module/msonline/set-msolcompanysettings?view=azureadps-1.0- camhaNov 15, 2021Copper ContributorHi, is this something for the partner's domain (p.com) or ours ?