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MicrosoftSharing to an external Office 365 Group
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."
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."
MicrosoftThanks for all the replies everyone!
Really looking forward to the guest features coming to Office 365 Groups, but that isn't quite the use case I was referring to in the original post.
I want to share a file via the Office 365 external sharing mechanism with an external Office 365 Group - A Group that exists in a completely separate tenant. I want to do this to take advantage of automated permissions based on Group membership, as well as all the collaboration features that come with the sharing mechanism in Office 365 (co-authoring, version control, permissions control, etc etc) as compared to simply attaching a file to an email.
I understand all the technical reasons why this doesn't work currently, but as more and more separate companies that may be partners onboard to Office 365 this could become a powerful feature to help ease EXTERNAL collaboration with dynamic groups of people instead of just individuals.