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How do you handle a team with 100 different customers that need access to only their content?
- Jul 19, 2017
I think I would use the PnP Partner pack to create all of the site collections https://github.com/SharePoint/PnP-Partner-Pack and enable them for external sharing, then I would create an Azure AD group for each customer, then put that AAD Group into the Members group of the applicable site collection. I would put 2 of my own people into the Owners group.
I would also want to put customer specific logos into each of the site collections to provide a visual cue.
Teams is not applicable because you cannot yet use it for External Sharing. You may want to hook this up to the SPO site collections when this functionality become available.
Not having Exchange Online is not an issue for this scenario.
You can do the same thing, a separate site or site collection is the easiest way. For the External user scenario, you definitely want separate site collections, for the internal user scenario, subsites in one collection can work, but navigation can get tricky.
- Peter McdermottJul 19, 2017Iron Contributor
My organization is set to modern sites by default, so if a user were to create 100 different 'Groups' would this get hairy in Planner and other 365 apps? We're not yet on Outlook online. Thanks!
- Dean_GrossJul 19, 2017Silver Contributor
I think I would use the PnP Partner pack to create all of the site collections https://github.com/SharePoint/PnP-Partner-Pack and enable them for external sharing, then I would create an Azure AD group for each customer, then put that AAD Group into the Members group of the applicable site collection. I would put 2 of my own people into the Owners group.
I would also want to put customer specific logos into each of the site collections to provide a visual cue.
Teams is not applicable because you cannot yet use it for External Sharing. You may want to hook this up to the SPO site collections when this functionality become available.
Not having Exchange Online is not an issue for this scenario.
- Peter McdermottJul 19, 2017Iron Contributor
Thanks, Dean_Gross!
It seems like this solution is very robust. Would it require admin priveleges? Another stipulation is that this needsto be completed by an end user. Also, it looks like this is setup for 2013 environment. Is it also compatible with new modern site pages?
Thank you, sir! Appreciate your time and expertise!