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Request input on External Sharing design - subsites and SharePoint groups versus O365 Groups
I'm looking for comments and feedback on an external collaboration solution. If anyone has implemented a similar solution, I would love to hear feedback on your experience - what worked well and w...
Your close with the thinking however I wouldn't use subsites for the external users. Your best bet is to use communication sites. These are similar to classic sites, but are MUCH easier for people to create content and manage. You can quickly show users to keep control of these sites and they are great for this purpose. External sharing will be similar to classic sites as well.
I would also highly consider Teams for this scenario, you get easy user management and complete collaboration platform to use for files / conversations etc. Have internal and External Teams. The only issue with Teams you'll run into is if you have clients that use Office 365 but have Teams disabled. In that case you have to invite personal Microsoft Accounts to join. That's the biggest current caviot when using Teams for active external use.
I would also highly consider Teams for this scenario, you get easy user management and complete collaboration platform to use for files / conversations etc. Have internal and External Teams. The only issue with Teams you'll run into is if you have clients that use Office 365 but have Teams disabled. In that case you have to invite personal Microsoft Accounts to join. That's the biggest current caviot when using Teams for active external use.