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How to share two (or more) site collections with an external user, without sending multiple invites?
@Craig Humphrey Sounds good. But it is micro requirement which your organization looking for. Microsoft provided the feature in SPO that Sharing concept. As a site collection administrator can have the control to add them in to 2nd site collection as per your requirement. Then what is the purpose of monitor the audit log and accept the invitaion again. I feel it waste of effort.
My suggestion would be to enable the sharing to external users to both site collections. Once user accept the external invitation only once , he is a global external user. Probally he/she user id will resolve by people picker to add into any external sharing site collections.
external sharing option in SPO
Hi Vadivelu,
thanks for responding, but I think something has gotten lost in translation.
If an external user is added to a second site collection, before they accept the invitiation (click the link in the email) to the first site collection, they will always receive an invitation. Which means they get two invitations. Which is uncessary and confusing.
Hopefully that clarifys things.
Regards
Craig
Choose the 2nd option on the screen shot above,
This allows SPO to use accounts already invited into the tenant using B2B and prevents users sending their own SPO generated invites.
Generally with SPO, I’d recommend inviting users into AAD Groups using B2B and then permissioning into SharePoint using the Azure AD group.
Hi Dean,
thanks for that.
I think B2B only really works if the other org already has O365 licenses (I could be wrong) and we get a mix, mostly are still Microsoft accounts, but we've had a handful that are already O365.
If I invite someone via B2B, do they get an invitation email still?
I've not played with the B2B stuff, it's still in preview right?
Is there a way to invite externals into AzureAD Groups without using B2B?
BTW this is the best answer I've had so far, even from MS...
Thanks
Craig
If you add other people to B2B that do not already have an account that MS recognizes, then MS creates a just-in-time (JIT) tenant with an AAD directory to contain the accounts from their domain. If their organization decides that they want to start using o365 and/or azure, when they sign up, that JIT tenant is transferred from unmanaged status to the responsible organization, i.e, the company with which you have been doing business/collaboration.
Yes, B2B is still in preview.this may help, https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/active-directory-b2b-collaboration-overview/
You can use B2C also, it has been release to GA
I got this info from MS as a follow up to a question i asked in their presentation last week on B2B, you may want to watch the webinar at http://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/console/EventConsoleApollo.jsp?&eventid=1224090&sessionid=1&username=&partnerref=&format=fhaudio&mobile=false&flashsupportedmobiledevice=false&helpcenter=false&key=218632A666A35486445956ABD76ADF53&text_language_id=en&playerwidth=1000&playerheight=650&overwritelobby=y&eventuserid=146857855&contenttype=A&mediametricsessionid=117939713&mediametricid=1779818&usercd=146857855&mode=launch
The presentation they gave is attached,
