External Access - Microsoft Account Creation

If I understand well, you have a different problem.

Have you already added (or do you want to add) the domain "rammarinesolutions.com" to your tenant?

(See https://support.office.com/en-us/article/add-a-domain-to-office-365-6383f56d-3d09-4dcb-9b41-b5f5a5efd611)

Hi, I believe we have the same problem regarding the use of an existing company email address. With our Microsoft business subscription my email address is now dirk@RAMmarine.onmicrosoft.com but I already have an existing business email dirk@rammarinesolutions.com which is the address we need to use for all the Microsoft services especially sharepoint. Is this possible?

Luke Hoffman,

Totally agree. This is something we are working with the Outlook folks on. I'll make sure to pass this feedback onto them. Thanks!

Stephen Rice

OneDrive Program Manager II

My testing found the following:

Scenario A:  External user was in my directory.  They received 1 email with a link to the file.  Would need to use Microsoft account to access.

Scenario B:  External user was not in my directory.  They received 2 emails.  The email itself and a second email with just a link to sign in or create an account.  Again using a Microsoft account.

I'm sure this is blatantly obvious, but this makes it really difficult to support users when they see different behavior based on how they are executing what they see as the same action "sharing".  In these scenarios I as an end user I would expect to see the authentication by code emails generated and not require a Microsoft Account.   

Deleted,

That can definitely cause some weird hiccups as directories sync up and down. If you continue to see issues with this, let me know. Thanks!

Stephen Rice

OneDrive Program Manager II

Hi all,

Just gave this a quick try. It looks like in this specific case, what we do is send two e-mails to the recipient. One is the e-mail you wrote with a direct link to the doc. We also send an invitation mail that facilitates account creation & permissioning to the doc. You have to click this first before clicking the other one.

And yep, we're doing work with the Outlook team now around just these types of scenarios. Stay tuned.

Stephen Rice

OneDrive Program Manager II

It actually doesn't work right and probably could use updating, if you use "Recipient can" option it just sends a link to those recipients direct to the file doesn't use MSA or Code invite options, it just grants permission of the user to the file which doesn't do any good for that user so it's basically only good for using the "Anyone can" when using external users. 

StephenRice Do you guys know about this by chance? Seems the Outlook piece could use a little "unified sharing" experience love when you customize the attachment sharing options. 

So it I put an internal user in the "To:" field of an Outlook message OneDrive/SharePoint automatically gives those users access to the cloud attachment that I'm sending.  What I'm wondering is if I put an external user in the "To:" field and send a cloud attachment do they automatically get rights to the cloud attachment as well and then what is the experience like on their end.  Do they access via a code or do they have to create an MSA?

Luke Hoffman

What do you mean by "invite an external user in Outlook"?

What happens when you invite an external user in Outlook and attach a cloud attachment?  Does the external user get access the same way an internal user would?  Are they able to log in using the code method?  I will test as well, but don't have the setup to do so at the moment. 

Luke Hoffman, Deleted, Salvatore Biscari,

The new sharing dialog is available in 1708 but only if you're on the Current Channel. The new dialog has not yet been rolled out to the Semi-Annual channel just yet. You can either move to the current channel (though I'm the wrong person to ask how to do that :) ) to get the build or wait until it is deployed further. Thanks!

Stephen Rice

OneDrive Program Manager II

Well according to this it's in build September 18, 2017
Version 1708 (Build 8431.2079)

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/mt465751

But I don't see the feature listed in the changes for the Semi-annual build that you have on that same page.