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SharePoint Guests are Prompted for Login?
Similar very strange issues. Yesterday shared a OneDrive for business folder with "Specific people" i.e whoxxx@somemail.com. This user gets a link to a dialog with " To verify your identity we'll send a code to you......" This code arrives at the above mail an after entering it access is granted. Very good - a kind of MFA. Today sharing a similar directory to the same mail creates a link when clicked asks "Sign in to whoxxx@somemail.com and we'll give you access immediately" which in practice will require a O365 of Live account. Deleted the O365 EXT# account but no success
- StephenRice
Microsoft
Hi Tunturi,
In the second case, was the user unable to sign-in or is the concern that the same user got different behavior? Thanks!
Stephen Rice
OneDrive Program Manager II
StephenRiceI was testing different sharing scenarios. And in the second case the user would have had to register a Microsoft account (Live or O365) as I understand it.
As trivial as this sounds, for a one person company, having one mail account and a different identity using the same mail is already confusing.
- StephenRice
Hi Tunturi,
Thanks for the feedback! We also don't like users who have to figure out that type of distinction and so we've been working to eliminate it in as many cases as possible. With the new Azure B2B integration (available in preview), guest users should only ever have to deal with a single account. Hope that helps!
Stephen Rice
Senior Program Manager, OneDrive
