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Shared Channel in a Team with external sharing turned off! HELP please!
Hi all - confusing conundrum which I'm not sure how best to solve! Here's the overview: We've created a Shared Channel with external participants and they can join in conversations fine. However,...
OzOscroft Answer received.
"When a shared channel is created, that creates a new site collection that does a one-time copy of the parent site collection. The channel site sees that external sharing is disabled, and does the same. From that point on it is managed separately and not synced if the parent changes. The two options are to re-create the shared channel after sharing externally is enabled at the parent or use SPO PowerShell to turn on external sharing for the shared channel's site collection.Thanks for raising this to our attention, we will look at how best to document this behavior."Just tried the second option above and it works great. You use this Set-SPOSite (Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.PowerShell) | Microsoft Docs with the -SharingCapability parameter.
OzOscroft Answer received.
"When a shared channel is created, that creates a new site collection that does a one-time copy of the parent site collection. The channel site sees that external sharing is disabled, and does the same. From that point on it is managed separately and not synced if the parent changes. The two options are to re-create the shared channel after sharing externally is enabled at the parent or use SPO PowerShell to turn on external sharing for the shared channel's site collection.
Thanks for raising this to our attention, we will look at how best to document this behavior."
Just tried the second option above and it works great. You use this Set-SPOSite (Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.PowerShell) | Microsoft Docs with the -SharingCapability parameter.
Thanks so much Christian. They've confirmed the behaviour I've experienced and I hope they can provide more granular control in the future to allow the shared channel to be shared, but not the rest of the Team or parent site.
I'd read on another forum that people tried Powershell to change the setting and it didn't work for them, so it's great to hear you've tested and it works well.
Great community response to this - problem raised, issue confirmed and acknowledged, understanding shared!
I'd read on another forum that people tried Powershell to change the setting and it didn't work for them, so it's great to hear you've tested and it works well.
Great community response to this - problem raised, issue confirmed and acknowledged, understanding shared!
OzOscroft Hello, stumbled across this scenario again but used a sensitivity label for container instead of manual change of the site-level setting. Worked great and thought you might want to know.