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Former Employee

Sep 08, 2016

Introducing guest access for Office 365 Groups!

Today, we announced the new guest access feature for Office 365 Groups, the group membership service that provides a single identity for teams in Office 365. The new guest access feature gives you th...

Zohar Shemesh

Copper Contributor

Dec 08, 2017

Hi Kady,

Outlook 365 and Sharepoint are relatively new tools in our company and seems to have nicely useful features. I have started using the share point group feature for the past year (with my team members).

I have the following issue regarding groups:

I want to share some of our teamwork with other members of the organization, allowing those members limited privileges accessing certain folders and files within our group files.

I have searched the web, unfortunately, I did not find any solution for my criteria.

Does share point allow adding organization members as guests or limited access?

Thanks,

Zohar Shemesh

Salvatore Biscari

Silver Contributor

Dec 13, 2017

Hi Zohar Shemesh

In Groups' jargon, "members" are users (internal or external to the organization) who are part of the Group and hence have access to all the Group resources.

On the other hand, you can share Group items (files or folders) with other users (internal or external) who are not members (i.e. not part of the Group), provided that the sharing configuration of the tenant and of the Group allows it.