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Sharing to External Users in an Office 365 Group
I am still confused about the ability to share with external users. I have been able to successfully share with a gmail, hotmail, and other "consumer" providers.
I am not successful with other Office 365 external users.
Is this a supported scenario? I have my tenant and I want to add joe@somegreatcompanyono365.com and can't but i can add the same "joe"@hispersonalemail.com?
The error messaging compounds my confusion.
As I add the person I see this:
So I go to my admin center as told and....
And for the finalle the SharePoint additonal settings:
I am obviously missing something...
Any suggestions are much appreciated!
Thank you,
eZe
Have you manually enabled (by PowerShell) the external sharing for that Group?
See https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Turn-external-sharing-on-or-off-for-SharePoint-Online-6288296a-b6b7-4ea4-b4ed-c297bf833e30#ID0EAABAAA=Office_365_Groups
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Have you manually enabled (by PowerShell) the external sharing for that Group?
See https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Turn-external-sharing-on-or-off-for-SharePoint-Online-6288296a-b6b7-4ea4-b4ed-c297bf833e30#ID0EAABAAA=Office_365_Groups
Why Microsoft, why?! This is so stupid. Seriously, every time a new team is created I have to run a powershell script to enable external sharing with new external users?! What a waste of time.
Just ran the same script and it worked like a charm. Only my second time using PowerShell so I'm pretty excited. Seems like when dealing with Groups, PowerShell is the best option. I just recovered a deleted Group using PowerShell (my first PowerShell adventure).
- According to the article shouldn't my Tenant settings allow this? I will give it a try though!
- Do you get the same issue when you are in a Group in outlook on the web and try sharing to an external user from there?
