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What would be the best way to share a file in O365 group to external user(not invited guest)?
I have a large file on O365 group which is being shared with my tenant members and invited guest co-workers. I need to share one of my O365 group file to external user who is not invited yet. Thi...
- This could potentially change with Modern Team Sites...but as Santhosh has said you cannot do this with current Groups implementation without having to apply a workaround
It is not possible to share O365 Groups files to the user as you have mentioned. AFAIK, the work around would be to add the user to Azure B2B and share it, if that works. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/documentation/articles/active-directory-b2b-collaboration-overview/
This could potentially change with Modern Team Sites...but as Santhosh has said you cannot do this with current Groups implementation without having to apply a workaround
Is there any ETA to solve this?
Or is it designed to be?
The more I use O365 groups with site created by groups, I need to share single file or folder to external user who is not invited in groups.
Everytime I do that, it is nightmare. I download that file for folder, and upload it to my onedrive again, and share it.
I just do not get it why this is not working yet.
Hi,
I just have come across some workaround and it work pretty nice. First of all you have to make sure that external user is added to Azure AD. The best way to do so is:
- Create Group "External guests" with no content and to invite external user. Once he/she accepts - he is added to user list and now you'll be able to send him/her invitation to single Group (not "External guests", but whatever you need) file or library.
- Create Access Group in Sharepoint site (let's say "Team site" or specially designed for those cases) "Externals" and add external users, that you would need to give access to Group files. Once they accept invitation, they are registered in User list and no more issues inviting them to a single file.
At least it helped for us and our customers. Best regards, Solveiga.
