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Inviting/Adding External Users to Modern Team Sites
Hi, I've been tearing my hair out on how to invite both the follow user types to a modern Sharepoint site: External user (no on Office 365 - but have a microsoft account) External user (Off...
Today sharing to external user accounts worked for me in SharePoint Online (Office 365).
Just use the "Share" action on a file in SharePoint Web App, enter an external e-mail address, wait until it gets displayed in the user selection list, then select it.
Please note: It seems if you got a mail user or mail contact in your AD / o365 with the same (external) e-mail address you are trying to share with, creation of the required external user account will fail, and thus sharing will not work.
Happened to me yesterday, but I did not verify today.