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External sharing in modern sites
- Well, my understanding is that in your case you will need a license for all the employees just because they are in the end employees no matter the role they play in your company
At the moment, this is a known issue by Microsoft. It is my understanding that the initial rollout of the Communication sites is set with external sharing turned off, hence, you cannot see a communication site in the Admin UI, and therefore cannot turn it back on to either share annonomously or with authentication. Simply having a microsoft account will not work since sharing is turned off. It is my understanding that microsoft is still testing this feature and at some point will enable it in the Admin UI. It is also my understanding that some users have reported having some success turning shareing on with Powershell, and that some also have not. If you are not well versed in this command line interface, I advise not to go there. You may really screw the pooch.
Robert Ranta, thank you for taking the time to answer my question. I am aware of this issue and the rollout plan. In my communication site, I was able to enable external sharing with powershell and encountered no problems. However, I am just in the testing phase at this point using my personal developer tenant. So I am not worried :-)