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Andrew Hodges's avatar
Andrew Hodges
Bronze Contributor
Oct 21, 2019

External Sharing - Restricting a Site Collection by domain issue when inviting users

If I restrict external sharing of site A to Domain A and invite user from Domain B the user is invited and receives an email message if they exist as a user in my tenant already. Following the sharing request link tells the user they don't have access and they can request access if the access requests are on. Approving the access request does nothing. 

 

I am thinking I would classify this as  bug.  Would you expect this to happen? I would expect the usual message "Your organization's policies don't allow you to share with these users. Go to External Sharing in the Office 365 admin center to enable it." 

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  • VasilMichev's avatar
    VasilMichev
    MVP
    Oct 21, 2019

    Yeah if the user already exists in the tenant I would expect the feature to check for that before sending an email invitation. Sound like a scenario they didn't code for/test, we get a lot of these lately...

    • StephenRice's avatar
      StephenRice
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      Oct 28, 2019

      Hi Andrew Hodges,

       

      Thanks for flagging this! Can you share (pun not intended 🙂 ) which Share UI you used to add the guest user from Domain B to the site? Thanks!


      Stephen Rice

      Senior Program Manager, OneDrive

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