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Issue sharing wih external users in OneDrive
Thanks Christopher for your message. Yes definitely sure it isn't an internal account which we have created. When searching in Azure AD it appears a guest. This to me suggests we do have an issue of some sort within our tenant. Thanks for your help.
- wrootSep 13, 2018Silver Contributor
Why do you think you have a problem? If you have guests, then guest access is enabled in your tenant. So you might want to disable it and then remove guests users, if your tenant should only work with internal users. But if you want to share files with other organizations and also require for them to authenticate and be able to edit files (not just share as anonymous read only link), then you have to have guest access enabled.
- DeletedSep 13, 2018
The issue isn't that we have guest users in AAD - we frequently share files with external contacts requiring authentication (usually via OneDrive). The problem is they are appearing as 'internal' from the end user's perspective/when they go to share files.
See example from my initial post: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/OneDrive-for-Business/Issue-sharing-wih-external-users-in-OneDrive/m-p/252141?attachment-id=7981
In this example these are both external to the company, however OneDrive is seeing one of them as 'internal' (the one that's in AAD).
- wrootSep 13, 2018Silver Contributor
This is weird. If i try to add both guests users to sharing dialog as specific people or just one guest and one internal, i get a message that they are outside of my organization. I don't see warning shown to you and i can't find a setting that might cause it.