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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.
Thanks for the information. Much appreciated.
Azam
Hi
A few follow on questions from this. I've been doing some testing with external sharing sites. A few days ago I shared a site with a gmail account. When I tried to log in using the gmail account I was asked to create a password but not a Microsoft account. Today I tried the same with a different gmail account and get prompted to create a Microsoft account.
Has anyone else seem this behaviour?
Is external sharing only possible with certain email addresses? My client wants to use nhs.net accounts but they are having issues. The accounts are being recognised as company accounts. They are not O365 accounts however the customer is not give any further options.
Does the external email address have to be linked to a Microsoft account? So all who do no have one will have to created one?
Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks
Azam
Hi Azam,
Did you ever sort this out? I'm trying to do the same thing on a smaller scale. Again using nhs.net addresses.
Thanks,