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How to share two (or more) site collections with an external user, without sending multiple invites?
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,
Dean_Gross thanks for this example and explanation. This would really improve the extranet experience for SharePoint, especially when the api for B2B becomes available.
Just to be sure. It looks like the user is created in the AD before accepting the invitation, where now with SharePoint the user is created after accepting the invitation.
If that's true and if there's an api the following scenario would be possible
- Call the api to invite a user
- Give him permissions to a SharePoint site before he accepts the invitation
That would give a fairly seamless expierence.