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David Rosenthal
Microsoft
MicrosoftSharing to an external Office 365 Group
Came across an interesting scenario today and wanted to get this group's opinion (and perhaps yours cfiessinger) The relevant configuration items: We have external sharing requiring authenticati...
There's a specific Guest feature coming for Groups. Guests are invited and must confirm with matching account.
On http://fasttrack.microsoft.com/roadmap, searching for "guest", under In development:
"Guest access support will enable teams using Office 365 Groups to easily collaborate with external team members (members that are not part of their organization/tenant). Guest users will have access to all of the groups assets: inbox, files, calendar and notebook. We'll introduce a number of administration controls to help you manage guests in Groups."
Mmm...the main issue here is the concept of "External Office 365 Group"...I don't see how this scenario can be supported in any way...I only see you could share information with the Group e-mail but them when the group receive the invitation, group members are not going to be able to sign in