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External Sharing to Non-Microsoft accounts
I shared a family album to 30 or so family members, and they get prompted to install OneDrive, to get MS IDs, and so on.
Is there a way to give the a link to click on, and when they click it says "Open or Download". That's all we need!
MicrosoftHi Chrysippus,
Are you sharing from OneDrive for consumers or OneDrive for business? Both products support sharing via a link that works for "Anyone" that should allow them to open the file & download without MS ID's. hope that helps!
Stephen Rice
Senior Program Manager, OneDrive
- StephenRice
Hi Markham30,
You should be able to either get a link that works for Anyone (if enabled) or share the folder via "Specific People" links. If the recipient doesn't have an MSA in the latter case, they should go through the One Time Passcode experience which lets them authenticate without creating an account. If that's not what you are seeing, do let me know! Thanks!
Stephen Rice
Senior Program Manager, OneDrive
External sharing of files without MS ID works for me however folder sharing does not. How do I share a Onedrive folder without the recipient having to sign in to a MS account?
- StephenRice
Hi Simon_Goodall,
Happy to share what I know in this space but I'll forewarn that I'm not an expert and so may miss some things 🙂
If you enable the preview & share the site itself with parents, they will receive a one time passcode to the e-mail address that was shared with. The flow looks like:
1) Simon shares to stephenrice@contoso.com
2) Stephen clicks on the link. It tells me I need to verify my identity by entering a code.
3) SharePoint sends the code to stephenrice@contoso.com.
4) Stephen enters the code & now can access the site.
You can also share individual pages with anyone links (one they are configured) which will allow users to access the individual pages without authenticating but it's worth noting that if the pages link out to other site resources, that probably won't work very well.
Generally though, I know we don't really support building SharePoint sites as public web pages anymore (something I'm sure other folks in this forum will know much more about!).
Hope that helps!
Stephen RiceSenior Program Manager, OneDrive
thanks StephenRice
we are sharing from OneDrive for Business - a school.
I'm not sharing documents, as much as pages on a sharepoint - so nothing for them to download. I want them to be able to view the sharepoint like a webpage... I know Sharepoint quite well and would prefer to use this instead of learning how to create a webpage!
