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SP Online and contractors
We want to provide contractors with access to some areas of our SP Online environment. Have read about external sharing and it seems suitable as: *contractors may work infrequently (from a few days...
Office-365 makes it very easy and safe to provide access to third-party participants, but they would need an email address supported by microsoft (e.g. Outlook, Yahoo, Hotmail etc), but no gmail or corporate email addresses not having the office-365 subscription.
If the number of users are limited and few then you can create email addresses (e.g. by having them register in live.com) and share the site with those email addresses.
If there are large number of users then if the information is to be made available publicly then You can post or send users a guest link that they can use to view individual documents on your site anonymously.
Vivek,
I have to say that your first paragraph is not true. You can indeed have a gmail address granted that you create an MS account with it. Even corporate email addresses too. Have you tried? I have a handful of times.
Once you do that, you can do external sharing with that email address.
I have to say that your first paragraph is not true. You can indeed have a gmail address granted that you create an MS account with it. Even corporate email addresses too. Have you tried? I have a handful of times.
Once you do that, you can do external sharing with that email address.
- Thanks Roy for correcting me.