Guest users are not showing in document library

Sarat Subramaniam
Microsoft
Apr 04, 2017
Hello Jakob -

Please refer to this doc https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/active-directory-b2b-faq.

See the question about SPO people picker:

Are B2B collaboration guest users visible in SharePoint Online/OneDrive people picker?

Yes! However, the ability to search for existing guest users in the SharePoint Online people picker is OFF by default to match legacy behavior. You can enable this using the setting 'ShowPeoplePickerSuggestionsForGuestUsers' at the tenant and site collection level. This can be set using the Set-SPOTenant and Set-SPOSite cmdlets, which allow members to search all existing guest users in the directory. Changes in the tenant scope do not affect already provisioned SharePoint Online sites.

Please run the above mentioned cmdlets to see the added users in the picker and let us know if that worked for you!
- Josh Czinger
  Copper Contributor
  Dec 08, 2017
  I cannot find this setting in either set-spotenant or set-sposite. Is it enabled elsewhere?
  - Josh Czinger
    Copper Contributor
    Dec 13, 2017
    I never did find the ShowPeoplePickerSuggestionsForGuestUsers feature on either commandlet. I did get it working this way, though I really don't understand why.
    
    User created via Azure AD New guest user feature
    
    Goto SPO and click Share (or add to a user group in SPO)
    
    Enter the users email address, same as the one used in step 1.
    
    This works. After I did this, I also was able to find the user via their display name in the people picker.
- Matthew Sutton
  Brass Contributor
  Sep 20, 2017
  Hi - picking up on this for my need - I am not sure if I am going mad - running the below is not working, should it be?
  
  Set-SPOSite -Identity https://domain.sharepoint.com/sites/testsite -ShowPeoplePickerSuggestionsForGuestUsers $true
  
  thanks
  - Matthew Sutton
    Brass Contributor
    Sep 20, 2017
    In fact - the site does not have this property - do you need to set at tenant first?
- Jakob Rohde
  Copper Contributor
  Apr 10, 2017
  Hi Sarat
  
  Thank you for the answer and sorry for the late response.
  
  It works!
  
  Is it possible to specify that all new sites that are created should have ShowPeoplePickerSuggestionsForGuestUsers set to True?
  
  Regards
  Jakob Rohde

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