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SharePoint Online - External Sharing, licensing
- My 2 cents:
1) If they are external users, they don't need a SPO license and they can take full advantage of SPO features
2) Azure B2B
3) Not necessarily
Good Morning,
External users cannot use Enterprise Search however, they are allowed to get content via Cross Site Collection Publishing which is based on Search. The Cross SC Publishing is a specific set of data that is being surfaced by Search so that is why it is allowed for External users.
You should be able to add the external users to a group, they are utilized the same as your internal users from a security perspective. The only things that you cannot do with External users is make them a site owner. They also cannot install software from the tenant but that is about it, everything else works the same. All External users will need to register their email with Microsoft but not necessarily a LiveID. Hope this helps.
Actually that does not contradict the documentation at all. The role of site collection ADMIN is open to external users as well as full control but the OWNER role is not. When you create a new site collection attempt to add an external user at that point and you will see the difference.
- Thanks for the clarification. I clearly got confused there !
No worries. The roles can be confusing sometimes. Have a pleasant day.