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John Twohig
Jun 01, 2021Iron Contributor
Who is included in "everyone except external users"?
For SharePoint Online I want to know exactly who is included in EEEU ("everyone except external users"). How can I get a list? At first I thought it was obvious but, after thinking about it it is...
PDostiyar
Jun 01, 2021Bronze Contributor
I don't think you will find these are everyone who has been assigned an email account from your organization domain or domains will be added automatically to everyone and everyone except external users groups, here is an article from Sharepoint Maven which give you the whole details about these two groups .... https://sharepointmaven.com/grant-employees-access-sharepoint-site-via-everyone-except-external-users-group/
Also here is the Docs from Microsoft about the same. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/troubleshoot/sharing-and-permissions/everyone-except-external-user-removed
Also here is the Docs from Microsoft about the same. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/troubleshoot/sharing-and-permissions/everyone-except-external-user-removed
John Twohig
Jun 02, 2021Iron Contributor
I saw both of those but neither clearly defines who is included or how to get a list.
It is definitely not "everyone who has been assigned an email account from your organization domain or domains" as you suggested. It has nothing to do with email. According to SharePoint Maven, they do not have to have an email, or any other, license. He says that they just need to be assigned the company domain to their username when they were set up.
If you look at the Active Users in the Microsoft 365 admin center it shows many things I wouldn't consider to be "users". It shows service accounts, resources, groups, and disabled users. If Microsoft considers them all to be "users" when it gives me a list of users does it also consider them all to be "users" in Everyone except external users?
I don't know the answer to that but if I could get a list I would be able to tell.
It is definitely not "everyone who has been assigned an email account from your organization domain or domains" as you suggested. It has nothing to do with email. According to SharePoint Maven, they do not have to have an email, or any other, license. He says that they just need to be assigned the company domain to their username when they were set up.
If you look at the Active Users in the Microsoft 365 admin center it shows many things I wouldn't consider to be "users". It shows service accounts, resources, groups, and disabled users. If Microsoft considers them all to be "users" when it gives me a list of users does it also consider them all to be "users" in Everyone except external users?
I don't know the answer to that but if I could get a list I would be able to tell.