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Azam Javaid
Copper Contributor
Jun 28, 2017
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SharePoint Online - External Sharing, licensing

Hi all   I have a few questions regarding external sharing in SharePoint. Very simply my scenario is an organisation I am working with wants to share content with a lot of external users. They want...
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  • jcgonzalezmartin's avatar
    jcgonzalezmartin
    Jun 28, 2017
    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
Azam Javaid's avatar
Azam Javaid
Copper Contributor
Jul 07, 2017

Thanks for the information. Much appreciated.

 

Azam

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Azam Javaid
Copper Contributor
Jul 17, 2017

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

  • Opachu O's avatar
    Opachu O
    Copper Contributor
    Jul 24, 2018

    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,