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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,...
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"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 Christian, much appreciated. I think you're right that they're assuming that the whole site has external sharing turned on - the question is whether this is by design or because of an oversight. Either way, the requirement needs to be documented and ideally a check put in place to avoid other orgs facing the same issue. I'm hoping that they break the inheritance of the external sharing policy between the shared channel's site and the parent site, as by doing that we could fully share the shared channel, but ensure the rest of the Team stays fully internal.
stumbled across the exact same issue. We selectively enable external sharing on site collections. When you create a shared channel where the Parent Team site collection is not externally shared, then you dont have an option to add external B2B Direct users to the shared channel. Even if you turn on external sharing for the shared channel site collection, "AllowAddGuests" for parent team is still false and therefore there is no option to add external members.