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JakobRohde
Iron Contributor
Feb 22, 2017
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Guest users are not showing in document library

If I grant guest users rights directly to a SPO document library (after having disabled inheritance), the users will have the expected rights, but they will not show up in the list of users/groups wi...
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  • Sarat Subramaniam's avatar
    Sarat Subramaniam
    Apr 04, 2017

    Hello Jakob - 

     

    Please refer to this doc  https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/active-directory-b2b-faq.

     

    See the question about SPO people picker:

    Are B2B collaboration guest users visible in SharePoint Online/OneDrive people picker?

    Yes! However, the ability to search for existing guest users in the SharePoint Online people picker is OFF by default to match legacy behavior. You can enable this using the setting 'ShowPeoplePickerSuggestionsForGuestUsers' at the tenant and site collection level. This can be set using the Set-SPOTenant and Set-SPOSite cmdlets, which allow members to search all existing guest users in the directory. Changes in the tenant scope do not affect already provisioned SharePoint Online sites.

     

    Please run the above mentioned cmdlets to see the added users in the picker and let us know if that worked for you!

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Josh Czinger
Copper Contributor
Dec 08, 2017
I cannot find this setting in either set-spotenant or set-sposite. Is it enabled elsewhere?
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Josh Czinger
Copper Contributor
Dec 13, 2017

I never did find the ShowPeoplePickerSuggestionsForGuestUsers feature on either commandlet. I did get it working this way, though I really don't understand why.

  1. User created via Azure AD New guest user feature
  2. Goto SPO and click Share (or add to a user group in SPO)
  3. Enter the users email address, same as the one used in step 1.

This works. After I did this, I also was able to find the user via their display name in the people picker.

 

 

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