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Iron Contributor

Jan 10, 2017

SharePoint Modern Team Site External Sharing

Trying to figure out how to share a Modern SharePoint Team Site with an external user. I can do the old teams sites via the SharePoint Admin Centre, but can't see how to do the new ones. I can ad...

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Jason Rhodes

Iron Contributor

Mar 11, 2017

Thanks Salvatore Biscari. I am understanding this a lot better now.

So to share a modern sharepoint team site with external (guest) users this has to be done at the group level in Outlook/OWA, and can't be done via the sharepoint site?

Also, I've now got an external guest using a site (group) I have setup. In the now modern sites, how can I control what guests can do? For example I don't want guests to be able to delete files etc.

Look forward to your reply.

Jason.

Salvatore Biscari

Silver Contributor

Mar 11, 2017

Wrt SPO, we have two separate concepts:

External member. An external member can access all SPO resources of the Group with the same permissions of the internal members. (BTW an external member participates natively, but only via email, also to the Group conversations.)
External user. An external user is the "target" of Group SPO resources sharing and has individual permissions.

In theory you can mix and match the two "roles" in order to model your requirements. In practice at the moment there are some limitations...

You may want to give a look to this thread: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Office-365-Groups/Best-Practices-for-Permissions-on-an-O365-Group-SharePoint-Site/m-p/51615#M2461