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Brass Contributor

Jan 23, 2018

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Sync external OneDrive shared folders

Hi, I have shared a folder from my OneDrive (for business) to an external user (external organization). He has also an O365 E3 subscription. When he click on the invitation email, he sees corre...

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Salvatore Biscari
Jan 23, 2018
You cannot sync folders shared from a user belonging to another organization.

Antoine HESKIA

Brass Contributor

Jan 23, 2018

Wow... This is crazy ! We did that for years with Dropbox. Are you aware to any plan regarding adding this feature ?

In the meantime, I guess I have to create a O365 group (or a MS Teams) to use SharePoint sync (with Groove for external organization).

Thanks,

Antoine.

Chris Black

Copper Contributor

Jun 20, 2018

Agreed, crazy!

And to make it worse, this little tidbit is nowhere to be found in OneDrive Admin, O365 Admin, or any of the pages describing how to share to external users.