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SharePoint Guests are Prompted for Login?
We have all the setting open wide for sharing content with external partners. Recently one of the main sites is now requiring users to login. As guests, they haven't had to do this before. I...
StephenRice
Microsoft
MicrosoftHi Eric Adler,
This is actually not related to the new preview as that is opt-in only (if you did opt in and are seeing these issues though, please let me know!).
This looks like a change we actually made last year where, when sharing to an O365 account, the recipient gets asked to sign in with their O365 account instead of the OTP flow. Can you help me understand the error you are seeing in these cases? Thanks!
Stephen Rice
OneDrive Program Manager II
this issue only began the weekend of my post. they had been using the site with this (and two other) guests with no problems for months. that Monday they prompted for a login and received the "not in the directory" error. we added and removed them through normal sharing, checked the site was set for sharing and nothing worked. I finally added them to the "guests" list explicitly as was shown the B2B article and it worked.