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New External Sharing Experience
Good day I have shared a library in SharePoint online with an external user, the user logs in with his Microsoft account and can access the documents, however he can only open a document in the brow...
This is current expected behavior. Expect some changes here thou in the future think some Microsoft folks have suggested they are working on allowing this to work in the future but right now the only way you can do it is by using the old sharing method. The user must have an explicit account to login to use the office clients. You can’t use the new sharing UI.
So if you add someone directly to the file / folder / site. Or as a guest to the group then they can use he clients. Otherwise it’s office online only.
So if you add someone directly to the file / folder / site. Or as a guest to the group then they can use he clients. Otherwise it’s office online only.