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External Sharing with Communication sites gives 403 error
I am trying to share a communications site with external users. Sharing is enabled and the user has permissions to the site. They can see and work with the site but they are prompted for credentials ...
I have spent some time with Microsoft Support. There seems to be a few issues.
1. The default logo can't be seen by external users. If you add a custom logo then it will appear for the external user.
2. The external user cannot see the images for news articles in a modern site unless they have read access to the root site collection.
3. Roll-up of news articles in the hub site is not working for external users. Support are looking into this issue.
The hover cards for people is the biggest one since sharing folders and what not or accessing libraries cause he prompts due to those trying to render and making authentication boxes show up.
Anyway. If you hide comments option on a modern page. And don’t use people web part. Or if you have pages with modified by or created by fields showing you’ll get prompts. If you remove these from default views and pages then they won’t come up. Still waiting for fixes on this it’s been going on two months.
Anyway. If you hide comments option on a modern page. And don’t use people web part. Or if you have pages with modified by or created by fields showing you’ll get prompts. If you remove these from default views and pages then they won’t come up. Still waiting for fixes on this it’s been going on two months.