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How do you handle a team with 100 different customers that need access to only their content?
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.
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!
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.
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!
The PnP Partner Pack is not for SP 2013
PnP Partner pack allows you to extend the out of the box experience of Microsoft Office 365 and Microsoft SharePoint Online, by providing the following capabilities:
- Save Site as Provisioning Template feature in Site Settings
- Sub-Site creation with custom UI and PnP Provisioning Template selection
- Site Collection creation for non-admin users with custom UI and PnP Provisioning Template selection
- My Site Collections personal view
- Responsive Design template for Site Collections
- Governance tools for administrators: apply SharePoint farm-wide branding, refresh site templates, bulk creation of site collections
- Custom NavBar and Footer for Site Collections with JavaScript Object Model
- Sample Timer Jobs (implemented as WebJobs) for Governance rules enforcement