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External User Account Creation
I have a related question:
When is Microsoft planning to roll out sharing O365 SharePoint sites with external users who have gmail accounts?
I saw demos at Ignite conference that showed granting access to external users who had gmail accounts but when I tried to test it in my Office 365 account, external user could not authenticate using a gmail account. Authentication worked for external users who had a Microsoft (Live) account. However, in many scenarios there is a need to grant access to people who have only gmail accounts (volunteer workers or small subcontractors or freelancers).
This is not a perfect solution to this issue, but this is how we are going to deal with it,
http://blog.atwork.at/post/2014/12/06/How-to-use-external-users-in-SharePoint-Online-with-a-cost-free-Azure-Active-Directory