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Eric Adler
Steel Contributor
Jul 10, 2019

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...
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Tunturi
Copper Contributor
Oct 14, 2019

StephenRiceI was testing different sharing scenarios. And in the second case the user would have had to register a Microsoft account (Live or O365) as I understand it.

As trivial as this sounds, for a one person company, having one mail account and a different identity using the same mail is already confusing.

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StephenRice
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Oct 14, 2019

Hi Tunturi,

 

Thanks for the feedback! We also don't like users who have to figure out that type of distinction and so we've been working to eliminate it in as many cases as possible. With the new Azure B2B integration (available in preview), guest users should only ever have to deal with a single account. Hope that helps!

 

Stephen Rice

Senior Program Manager, OneDrive

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    Tunturi
    Copper Contributor
    Oct 16, 2019

    StephenRiceGreat! - have to check if any of my tenants has the preview active