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Douglas Clelland
Aug 22, 2017Copper Contributor
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...
Sandy Ussia
Nov 09, 2017MVP
Douglas Clelland wrote:Hello seems i figured it out, had to go the powershell route as the tenant UI setting were not working
set-sposite -identity $Siteurl -sharingcapability ExternalUserAndGuestSharing
Thanks so much for this... just what I needed today! Worked perfectly.
Seems rather silly this isn't working in the UI yet (still)...
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Nov 09, 2017I agree ... having to do things by script adds a lot of over head. My IT manager, has complained that he hates the Admin overhead with O365 because what he could do in the past with a GUI in a few seconds he now has to do by scripting and for him who hasn't done a lot of PowerShell this is cumbersome and a learning curve that he doesn't have time to spend learning. All fine and good if you are a dev-op who was brought up on scripting.