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Unable to Share with External Users
Hello all,
as of today I am unable to share with external users from a sharepoint site.
I checked all avenues:
Office 365 - external sharing On
SharePoint - external sharing on
Site - external sharing On
when i choose a document in a library and click Share-Specific People I get this error
Your organization's policies don't allow you to share with these users. Go to External Sharing in the Office 365 admin center to enable it.
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It's permissions issue you can solve it from OneDrive also.
check the article below for detailed information
https://www.paayi.com/your-organizations-policies-dont-allow-you-to-share-with-these-users/
Yes. Just use the URL from the SharePoint Admin Center at the bottom of the Site Collection list, I.E. domain.my.sharepoint.com or just use that portion when accessing your one drive.
Hi,
I have faced the same issue and I have resolved like below:
Thank you for this information.
Been battling to share stuff for days - couldn't figure out why it didn't work.
Can someone please share the step by step guide for powershell ?
I did a bit of testing on this out of curiosity, and found (at least from the sites I tested in my tenant, not necessarily a thorough examination) that external sharing works via the UI settings on sites I created prior to the time when a new site created an O365 group. The sites that are "Public Groups" all seem to not be allowing external sharing (though I have it enabled at all the levels, as you did), unless I use the PowerShell cmdlet.
Since those are the same sites that don't show up in the list of Site Collections in the SharePoint Admin center, I hope when we get the new Admin Center (that shows the "groupified" sites as well), that maybe the external sharing settings will propagate correctly....
Hello Everyone,
We have exactly the same problem but with OneDrive, the powershell commandline seems only for SharePoint Sites, anyone tried with OneDrive ?
That is your OneDrive url
- Thanks Dale i'm going to try it right now !
Tried with OneDrive and it Works! Get the URL from SharePoint Admin Center - look for the one with my-sharepoint in it - Thats it.
Thats Good news Dale! what script did you use?
FYI, I am seeing the following in my Service Health center
Office Admin center - Service healthHi Dean!
I can confirm this message, I am seeing the same thing. Hopefully this will help folks! Appreciate you chiming in as always!
Hello seems i figured it out, had to go the powershell route as the tenant UI setting were not working
set-sposite -identity $Siteurl -sharingcapability ExternalUserAndGuestSharing
Worked for me.
Thank you very much for your smart cmdlet. It still doesn't work via GUI in July 2018. This is an awkward way by Microsoft pressing admins to use the PowerShell :-).
This is ridiculous. Every GUI setting that's possible to set is indicating that anonymous link sharing is allowed, but our users can't select that option when trying to share a file. And we're expected to have an IT admin that can run a powershell script? This has been a problem for over a year. When can we expect OneDrive to actually respect the settings in the OneDrive/Sharepoint admin centers?
Douglas Clelland wrote:Hello seems i figured it out, had to go the powershell route as the tenant UI setting were not working
set-sposite -identity $Siteurl -sharingcapability ExternalUserAndGuestSharing
Thanks so much for this... just what I needed today! Worked perfectly.Seems rather silly this isn't working in the UI yet (still)...
I agree ... having to do things by script adds a lot of over head. My IT manager, has complained that he hates the Admin overhead with O365 because what he could do in the past with a GUI in a few seconds he now has to do by scripting and for him who hasn't done a lot of PowerShell this is cumbersome and a learning curve that he doesn't have time to spend learning. All fine and good if you are a dev-op who was brought up on scripting.
