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Groups Guest access and SharePoint access
As I understand my issue is not exactely what you are discussing, but I will chime in anyway.
We have the need to create links to files in a group library for unauthenticated access. Do I understand the thread right in assuming that this is not possible?
This means that right now the users are creating files structures in their own OneDrive that they are sharing with the Group and using the Shared With Us view.
What is very messy and takes away a lot of the advantages of the group, bus the external sharinng links are crucials for this organisation.
Can anyone help?
"By default, all SharePoint site collections that are part of an Office 365 Group have the sharing setting set to Allow sharing only with the external users that already exist in your organization’s directory. To change this setting, you can use the Set-SPOSite Windows PowerShell cmdlet." from https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Manage-external-sharing-for-your-SharePoint-Online-environment-c8a462eb-0723-4b0b-8d0a-70feafe4be85?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US
Hence, to share with unauthenticated users, it is enough to change the default by powershell.
- Awesome! That was exactly what I was looking for! Thank you!
I am still having issues (and lots of support tickets) as Guest members of a new Group cannot access the Groups SharePoint files. Referring to the article mentioned below:
The article says: By default, all SharePoint site collections that are part of an Office 365 Group have the sharing setting set to Allow sharing only with the external users that already exist in your organization’s directory. To change this setting, you can use the Set-SPOSite Windows PowerShell cmdlet.
Q: If I change the Tenant (global) settings, do I still have to change the settings for the site collections related to the Office 365 Groups with the SPO cmdlet?
NB: I ask this as I do not see an obvious Site Collection in the list of Site Collections that is related to my Office 365 Groups (for example storage used is zero when there are many files in the Group site) - related, where do I see the storage used for the SharePoint files associated with a group?
- Didn't hear back so I Set-SPOSite -Identity https://xxx/sites/yyy -SharingCapability ExternalUserAndGuestSharing The SP article on this https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Manage-external-sharing-for-your-SharePoint-Online-environment-C8A462EB-0723-4B0B-8D0A-70FEAFE4BE85 is not clear which capability maps to which value to use and has no date so who knows if it is in sync with Groups :-(
