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Cannot add external users to sharepoint site group
- When you are adding GUESTA to the SP group - if you enter their email address, and then press Ctrl+k (to check name) - does it then resolve them?
How long had it been between adding the user in Azure, and trying to add them to SP?
How long had it been between adding the user in Azure, and trying to add them to SP?
So it does work, but you have to ensure that the email address resolves .... you cant find the user any other way
Chris Gray I am having exactly the same issue and need to add bulk users to the SharePoint group. The users have been setup in Azure for 48 hours, show up in O365 as external users but cannot be added to the SharePoint Group without inviting them again through SharePoint which will send another email with the URL. This problem is intermittent because you can then create a new guest in Azure and then they show up in Invited people as you start to type their name.
Chris Gray wrote:So it does work, but you have to ensure that the email address resolves .... you cant find the user any other way
I am facing the same issue programmatically after an external user is added in Azure AD, I get an error "User can not be found" when adding the same user in "Site Visitors" group.
Am I missing anything or it's a known issue?
Thank you in advance!
Note: I am able to add the same user manually, but not programmatically.
Best Regards,
Interesting ... so 24 hours(ish) later I have made another discovery
GUESTA is now available in the "invite people" lookup
BUT
still cannot be found when trying to add them to a sharepoint group directly
the plot thickens
- Basically you need to wait until the new users added are propaggated to SPO
