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Eric Adler
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May 25, 2017
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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 Of...
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  • Salvatore Biscari's avatar
    Salvatore Biscari
    May 25, 2017

    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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Salvatore Biscari
Silver Contributor
May 25, 2017

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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Tom Robey
Iron Contributor
Nov 15, 2017

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).  

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