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Maxwell Shifman
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Feb 13, 2019

SharePoint Guests vs Azure AD Guests

I'm trying to understand the use of SharePoint Online Guests and the integration with Azure AD.   We use External Sharing via SharePoint/OneDrive for Business extensively, with the default being to...
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roniy
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StephenRice 

 

That's helpful, thanks! 

 

Actually I was asking about the creation of guest users in AAD - is there a difference between sharing a site and sharing a file/folder? 

 

I commented on a few different threads so sorry for the confusion 🙂

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StephenRice
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Jul 08, 2020

roniy,

 

Ha! You are totally right! My mistake 🙂

 

To answer your actual question, yes, there are differences between file/folder sharing and site sharing (especially when Azure B2B integration is disabled). Site sharing requires account creation (either AAD or MSA) while file/folder sharing go through the One Time Passcode flow (which doesn't always result in account creation).

 

Once Azure B2B is enabled, both file/folder sharing and site sharing go through the same B2B flow which results in guest account creation 🙂 

 

Hopefully this answers your actual question this time! 😄

 

Stephen

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    roniy
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    Sep 03, 2020

    Hi StephenRice , I have a related question:

     Can external users (not in AAD) be added to SharePoint groups?

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