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GaryS123
Mar 30, 2021Iron Contributor
Sharing and Guest accounts
I have noticed when sharing a folder or file in sharepoint that sometimes a guest account gets created in Azure AD. Is an account only created if you share with someone from outside your organisatio...
Mar 30, 2021
Hi!
An external user is going to be created in your Azure AD no matter if the user has a professional account or any other account (GMail)
An external user is going to be created in your Azure AD no matter if the user has a professional account or any other account (GMail)
- GaryS123Mar 30, 2021Iron ContributorIs there a scenario where my explanation would occur ?
I have just seen another user in my logs get created by someone sharing a file with them and am guessing the user that got created is using a tennant too.
So I created a gmail account, and shared a file with it from my OneDrive, all works fine, the new gmail user was prompted for a code which got emailed after and it could access the file. No new account created in AAD though which is why I assumed non-ms accounts and non-tennants were not created.
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