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Douglas Clelland
Copper Contributor
Aug 22, 2017

Unable to Share with External Users

Hello all, as of today I am unable to share with external users from a sharepoint site. I checked all avenues: Office 365 - external sharing On SharePoint - external sharing on Site - external s...
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Dean_Gross
Silver Contributor
Aug 23, 2017

FYI, I am seeing the following in my Service Health center 

SP115406 - Unable to share with external users
 
Office Admin center - Service health
User Impact: Users are unable to perform external sharing. More info: Users may encounter an error message which states, "Your organization's policies don't allow you to share with these users. Go to External Sharing in the Office 365 admin center to enable it". This issue only affects users if external sharing is enabled on the site collection from the SharePoint admin center. As a workaround, users may request that an admin enable external sharing via PowerShell. Current status: Our investigation determined that a recent update contained a code defect which caused impact to updating the External Sharing user interface. We've developed a fix and have deployed it to a subset of infrastructure to perform thorough testing before the fix is deployed to all remaining infrastructure. The deployment process is expected to take up to one week to complete. Scope of impact: This issue is specific to users who have external sharing enabled within the SharePoint admin center. Start time: Wednesday, August 16, 2017, at 6:48 AM UTC
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    Douglas Clelland
    Copper Contributor
    Aug 23, 2017

    Hi Dean!

    I can confirm this message, I am seeing the same thing. Hopefully this will help folks! Appreciate you chiming in as always!

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