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Shane Kelm
Jul 05, 2017Copper Contributor
Office365 OneDrive Share - Link cant be sent to external email address
Within Office365 > OneDrive. On Mac and windows (both chrome), users are starting to notice that when an external contact is entered which has been used many times before without issue, is now getti...
Peter Lundstedt
Dec 12, 2017Copper Contributor
I'm having the same issue - External sharing is set to "Most permissive" in the OneDrive admin center but users can only specify internal email addresses when sharing files and folders. Attempting to share with an external user produces "The link can't be sent because at least one recipient isn't valid".
Looking at existing Microsoft documentation such as this: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Manage-sharing-in-OneDrive-and-SharePoint-ee8b91c5-05ec-44c2-9796-78fa27ec8425?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US seems to imply that this is not expected behavior.
troyhickerson
Apr 22, 2020Copper Contributor
Peter Lundstedt I had the same issue, but then realized I need to go into each Shared Library and set the permission to allow anyone with a link. Hope that helps.