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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...
Is the collaboration with external users limited to file sharing or do you need also communication?
Primarily file sharing. At this point they are not ready to use chat-type communications tools with their clients. And the company internally uses Slack and they aren't interested in switching to Teams.
A couple of comments:
- It's not clear to me what you mean by "We are using Office 365 Groups to control internal employee permissions on SharePoint". So you have not classic team sites, as you stated, but modern team sites (i.e. connected with Office 365 Groups)?
- In any case, subsites are not the current trend, hence I would avoid them. Moreover, if I understand well, you don't need pages (i.e. an additional team site), but only file storage, am I correct? If this is the case, you could create one additional library (or even a simple additional folder) in each (modern?) team site and share with externals just that library/folder.
Just my two cents...
