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Toby McDaid
Aug 02, 2019Iron Contributor
"Sharing failed: value cannot be null" when trying to share a site with an external user?
We're attempting to share one of our SharePoint sites with an external user and I'm currently just doing some testing with my own personal email address. Everything has been configured correctly ...
Berta K
Aug 02, 2019Brass Contributor
Toby McDaid have you checked to made sure that the site collection is set to external sharing? You can have external turned on and still set a specific site to not share externally.
- Toby McDaidAug 05, 2019Iron Contributor
Berta K The site collections are definitely set up to allow sharing, they're on the 'new and existing' option.
- Aug 02, 2019You could check that, but usually it wouldn't allow you to even put it in there and wouldn't check names properly. Have you tried another address? Maybe something specific to your account there and it being in the tenant or something already causing issue. Try sending to another address you may have that you haven't used before.
- Toby McDaidAug 05, 2019Iron ContributorHi Chris,
I've done a number of tests now, trying it on two different site collections and using three different external email addresses. I even created a new email address with a random name, just in case the permissions were conflicting in some way to my Office 365 admin account which uses the same name.- Rob EllisAug 05, 2019Bronze Contributor
Does the account you are logged into SharePoint as (the one doing the inviting) have an email address / mailbox?