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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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StephenRice
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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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