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Stephan Swinford's avatar
Stephan Swinford
Iron Contributor
Jul 05, 2017

Anonymous Sharing not working with Communication sites

We're starting to roll out some Communication sites, however it looks like it is currently impossible to enable Anonymous sharing links: I get the following error when I try to set anonymous sha...
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Thomas Pittl's avatar
Thomas Pittl
Copper Contributor
Sep 06, 2017

Any news in this topic? My problem still isn't solved. External sharing does not work? Is it working for anyone?!

  • Jurriaan Op Den Akker's avatar
    Jurriaan Op Den Akker
    Copper Contributor
    Sep 07, 2017

    Thomas, it is working for us. Did you try to enable it using powershell ide ?

    • Thomas Pittl's avatar
      Thomas Pittl
      Copper Contributor
      Sep 07, 2017

      Hey, yes now its working - i've used this:

       

      Set-SPOSite -Identity https://XXXXX.sharepoint.com/sites/XXXXX -SharingCapability ExternalUserAndGuestSharing

      Thanks to all!

      Tom

      • Antony Fearn's avatar
        Antony Fearn
        Copper Contributor
        Apr 03, 2018

        Hi

         

        Like others I've been able to get external access working for Communication Sites by using powershell. However external users still need to authenticate using a Microsoft account.

        Has anyone got the powershell that will allow me to set sharing to 'anyone with a link' for a specific Communication site?

        Note - I don't want to do this across the tenant -just the odd Communication site as part of a proof of concept exercise.

         

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