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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
- 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.
- Eric, Are you saying that even after applying the PowerShell change to the group, you are still unable to share with an external user with a Work or School Account?
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Set-SPOSite -Identity https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/site1 -SharingCapability ExternalUserAndGuestSharing
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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"!
--OwenTo be fair, MS has promised some time ago in a thread here that the default for Groups will be changed to allow anonymous sharing. But then I guess that someone will complain about this choice... ;-)
So, the best thing would be to have all defaults configurable in the Admin Center UI. But then I guess that someone will complain that he/she has shot himself in the foot... ;-)
