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Notification when external user accepts sharing invitation
Within the Security & Compliance center you can filter by accepted invitations. So no email alert but at least you can get to the infromation:
MicrosoftHi Damien,
I have some good news for you. We have a new feature rolling out soon that will address this exact scenario. When an external user accepts a sharing invitation to a document in your OneDrive for Business, you will receive an e-mail notification informing you of who the user is and what resource they are accessing. The e-mail always goes to the owner of the ODB. There is an additional notification for when someone else shares one of your ODB documents to an external user.
This feature will be rolling out to ODB in September and we'll be listening for feedback as we plan out how to bring this feature to SharePoint Online & team sites as well. Thanks!
Stephen Rice
OneDrive Program Manager
HiStephenRice . Are there plans for the same feature be included in sharepoint document libraries?
thank you!
Alisson
- StephenRice
Hi araujotech,
This is something we've talked about but don't have any plans to share just yet. Definitely submit this over at onedrive.uservoice.com though as this helps us prioritize what collab features we work on next! Thanks!
Stephen Rice
Senior Program Manager, OneDrive
- Hi Stephen, this doesn't seem to work for us at this point... in fact, when I try to share with someone external who doesn't have a Microsoft account (ie. a gmail mail address), all I get to is the new login experience… there is no suggestion to create a Microsoft account or anything like that - and since I don't have a Microsoft account as that user, I get nowhere… Is this a known problem?
- StephenRice
Hi Allan,
With the new external sharing flow, you don't need to create a Microsoft account to access the content. Instead you just need to verify that you own the e-mail address by entering the verification code. There should be no need to sign-in or sign-up for an account. Thanks!
Stephen Rice
OneDrive Program Manager II
- Thank you, yes, I have been looking forward to that feature. But right now I am not being offered to enter such a code. I only see a box where I have to enter a username or mail address for a Microsoft account, which does not exist for said Gmail address... So as an external user I would be stuck...
StephenRice Thanks! looking forward to this improvement.
