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Need Advice for specific SharePoint site configuration
I have been asked to set up a single SharePoint site with the following requirements. The site has a single document library with two main folders: External and Internal. External is for fil...
The First question that came to my mind to better understand what you are doing and what possibly can go wrong is, what kind of user is your „external user“. Is it a guest user you invited to the group of the Site or is it a normal user of your tenant you gave a license and handed over to an external Partner?
AndreRadtke These users are not currently part of our tenant. Would we need to invite them as guests before adding them to a sharepoint group?
- Yes, in general you must invite them to your tenant (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/community/managing-external-guest-in-sharepoint-vs-teams), then create a group as you already did as it seems and then, this is my advice, just put the external users into this group and create a custom permission level to meet your requirements but I guess view only might be enought. If the guest users are in the group (standard group) of a group connected site, then they might have too much rights onto the site, pls check that.
