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escupham
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Mar 01, 2017

Groups Guest access and SharePoint access

Looking to confirm my understanding.  If you add a guest to an O365 from OWA, they will only have access to the associated SharePoint site if external sharing for that site has been turned on (or if ...
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David Rosenthal's avatar
David Rosenthal
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May 01, 2017

Any updates to this Sahil Arora? I'm starting to get a lot of users trying to share individual files from their modern team sites that are created as part of an Office 365 Group, who are getting the error which makes it look like external sharing is disabled when it actually isn't. This is generating a lot of tickets and complaints to our support function as users are used to external sharing in SharePoint and would like to share individual files that way as opposed to sharing the file contents of their entire Group.

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Bobby Cruz
Brass Contributor
Dec 02, 2017

Hey Dave,

Run this first after you are authenticated with your tenant using PS.

when using connect-sposervice the -Url switch should point to your group team site not your SharePoint Admin Url

set-spotenant -SharingCapability ExternalUserAndGuestSharing

then

set-sposite https://yoursite.sharepoint.com/teams/development -SharingCapability  ExternalUserAndGuestSharing

Although External Sharing is enabled in the Admin Center, running SPOSite -SharingCapability  ExternalUserAndGuestSharing never worked.

 

Enabling External Sharing via PS using SPOTenant level worked. 

 

I hope this works for you.

 

Best,

Bobby

 

 

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