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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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Dale Robertson's avatar
Dale Robertson
Copper Contributor
Aug 29, 2017

Tried with OneDrive and it Works! Get the URL from SharePoint Admin Center - look for the one with my-sharepoint in it - Thats it.

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Douglas Clelland
Brass Contributor
Aug 29, 2017

Thats Good news Dale! what script did you use?

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    Dale Robertson
    Copper Contributor
    Sep 01, 2017

    the one posted above:

    Yes this was using SharePoint Online Management shell which you can get here:
    https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/download/details.aspx?id=35588

     

    Note: to run this you have to be a "Global Admin" or it won't work.

     

    $adminUPN="replace_with_admin-username"
    $orgName="Company Name"
    $usercredential = Get-Credential -username $adminUPN -Message "type password"
    Connect-SPOService -Url https://$orgName-admin.sharepoint.com -Credential $userCredential


    $siteurl="https://$orgName.sharepoint.com/sites/desired_site_collection"
    set-sposite -identity $siteurl -sharingcapability ExternalUserAndGuestSharing

     

    The

    "Connect-SPOService -Url https://$orgName-admin.sharepoint.com"

    URL you get from Sharepoint online admin center

    • Farshad Abasi's avatar
      Farshad Abasi
      Copper Contributor
      Oct 12, 2017

      Hi everyone,

       

      Thank you for the discusion and the PowerShell solution. I noticed that it was mentioned back in August that a fix was being rolled out for the GUI. Does anyone know when we can expect this?

       

      Cheers,

       

      -f.

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