Forum Discussion
Sharing to External Users in an Office 365 Group
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
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?
Yep. Same thing.
No. The tenant setting is necessary, but not sufficient.
You have also to enable sharing individually for each Group.
"By default, all SharePoint site collections that are part of an Office 365 Group have the sharing setting set to Allow sharing only with the external users that already exist in your organization's directory. To change this setting, you can use the Set-SPOSite Windows PowerShell cmdlet." (from the article cited above)
- I understand your point, Salvatore, and the article you point out states it clearly, but I also had the same problem and misunderstanding that Eric had, and while now I know the solution (based on your fine response), I also believe the UI in the Admin Center should be updated. While a couple of different UserVoice entries say that this has been done, that is because now the PowerShell is available.
To the SharePoint UX designers, if the goal is to get users to understand that a document library in a site is a document library in a Group is a document library in a Team, then can we get consistent UX around their permissions? And, if the answer is, "When we ship external user support for Teams then all will be resolved and will be beautiful," then "Thank You In Advance"!
--Owen
I have not. I will give that a shot.
You guys rock!
- I knew Salvatore was going to provide a super-fast answer :-)
