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Douglas Clelland
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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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David Gordon's avatar
David Gordon
Copper Contributor
Nov 23, 2017

Thank you for this information.

Been battling to share stuff for days - couldn't figure out why it didn't work.

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Maqbool Khan Niazi
Copper Contributor
Dec 12, 2017

Can someone please share the step by step guide for powershell ?

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    Dale Robertson
    Copper Contributor
    Dec 12, 2017

    Install SPO PowerShell Module:

    https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35588

     

    RUN AS ADMIN

     

     

    TO CONNECT:

     

    $adminUPN="admin@yourdomain.net"

    $orgName="Contoso"

    $userCredential = Get-Credential -UserName $adminUPN -Message "Type the password."

    Connect-SPOService -Url https://yourcompany-admin.sharepoint.com -Credential $userCredential

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      Rick Kloor
      Copper Contributor
      Nov 06, 2018

      Sorry to Hijack this post, but when i use this script i get the message that :

      set-sposite : You can’t set the sharing capability to the level you specified, because it is a less restrictive setting than either its parent site collection or your

      organization.

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    Dale Robertson
    Copper Contributor
    Dec 12, 2017

    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

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      Terry Durden
      Copper Contributor
      Aug 13, 2018

      Our SP Administrator tried to run the Powershell script and received the following error:

       

      set-sposite : The managed path xxxx/SitePages is not a managed path in this tenant.

       

       

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