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PDostiyar
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Feb 07, 2019

Sharing with External users !

Hello Community Members,   have any of you also experince this error " Your organization's policies don't allow you to share with these users. Please contact your IT department for help. " while sh...
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jcgonzalezmartin
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Feb 07, 2019
Basically you have to ask to your admin to enable sharing with external people...by default you cannot shared with external people in a modern SPO site
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PDostiyar
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Feb 08, 2019
Thank for your reply it has been already enabled and we do not have any problem with classic site.

The only issue is on modern sites library.
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    StephenRice
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    Feb 11, 2019

    Hi PDostiyar ,

     

    There are two places you need to have external sharing enabled: For the entire organization and for the specific site you are sharing from. If you have access to the new SharePoint admin center preview, go to the site collections tab and find the group site and open up the properties pane. You should see the current external sharing setting there. Hope that helps!

     

    Stephen Rice

    OneDrive Program Manager II

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      PDostiyar
      Bronze Contributor
      Feb 11, 2019

      Hi Stephen,

       

      thanks for your note yes i do have access to the SharePoint admin Center and when i check it is alreayd there too this is somthing we alreayd do there are four options we use 

       

      Existing external users
      Only users already in your organization's directory.
       
      since we add the emails to our trusted zone first and then share the files with them.
       
      Regards
      Pervaiz Dostiyar
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        StephenRice
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        Feb 11, 2019

        Hi PDostiyar ,

         

        I think I know what's happening :) You have the site collection set to only allow external sharing to existing guest users. This means that you can only share to people who are already in your organization's directory. Try setting it to "New and existing external users" and it should work! Let me know how it goes!

         

        Stephen Rice

        OneDrive Program Manager II

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