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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...
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
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.
- 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
--This worked for me!
