“External sharing is extra caring” 🎙 The Intrazone podcast

[Mark Kashman]

Microsoft 365 provides a rich set of solutions for collaborating with users both inside and outside of your organization (such as partners, vendors, clients, or customers). In this episode, we cover various levels of “extranet” to discover best practices when using and configuring Microsoft Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive for external collaboration.

As our SharePoint PnP community friends David Warner II and Vesa Juvonen say, “Sharing is caring.” And if sharing is caring, external sharing is extra caring. Yes, you can have it both ways.

And we've another special episode intro guest (from my biased-host perspective): my dad, Howard Kashman. He snuck into Microsoft Studios with me and shared his pre-Cloud-days perspective on this “external sharing” topic. Love you, dad.

OK, grab your external collaborators and … off to the show:

In this episode of The Intrazone, we speak to SharePoint tech expert, Christian Buckley – Founder and CEO of CollabTalk, Microsoft Regional Director and MVP. Christian talks through many solutions that allow for collaboration with customers, partners, and virtual teams that stretch inside and outside of your organization, with a focus on which tools work the best in different scenarios – across SharePoint, Teams, Yammer, OneDrive, Stream, and more. Get in on the #ExternalCollabTalk.

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Christian Buckley, Founder and CEO (CollabTalk + Microsoft Regional Director and MVP).

Link to articles mentioned in the show:  

• Hosts and guests
  • Mark Kashman |@mkashman [co-host]
  • Chris McNulty |@cmcnulty2000 [co-host]
  • Christian Buckley (Founder & CEO (CollabTalk/Microsoft Regional Director and MVP) | @BuckleyPlanet | CollabTalk | @CollabTalk [guest]
• Articles and sites
  • External sharing in Microsoft 365 – an IT admin guide (docs.microsoft.com)
  • Create a secure guest sharing environment (docs.microsoft.com)
  • File protection (incl. external sharing) solutions in Office 365 (PDF)
  • “External file sharing in Microsoft 365” #Ignite19 session #BRK3263 by Rafael Lopez-Uricoechea and Stephen Rice (video on-demand)
  • Microsoft Docs - The home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals.
  • Microsoft Tech Community Home
  • Stay on top of Office 365 changes
  • Get started with Office Online in Office 365
• Events
  • SharePoint Saturdays | @SPS_Events
  • Microsoft Ignite | The Tour (various cities worldwide); related blog, "Ignite The Tour 2019/2020 guide to SharePoint, OneDrive, Yammer and Stream sessions"
  • ESPC, European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Conference - December 2-5, Prague, Czech Republic (@EuropeanSP); related blog, "European SharePoint Conference 2019 (#ESPC19) guide to Microsoft 365 sessions & community activities"

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Left to right [The Intrazone co-hosts]: Chris McNulty, senior product manager (SharePoint, #ProjectCortex – Microsoft) and Mark Kashman, senior product manager (SharePoint – Microsoft).

What a treat to have my dad, Howard Kashman, at Microsoft Studios while we recorded the intro for this episode. Can you guess who is the father and who is the son?

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[Scott8887]

Hey Mark, great show on External Sharing! There was mention of using external sharing to create an extranet - I am trying to do this with out-of-the-box solutions for my team and was hoping you might provide some additional resources or pointers? 

[Mark Kashman]

Hi @Scott8887 - seeing if this article helps any: Mikael Svenson's 'how to' for "Enable external sharing on communication sites" http://www.techmikael.com/2017/08/enable-external-sharing-on.html 

Once you enable the communication site with external users enabled, you then simply design the site how you'd like them to interact with it; news posts, available documents, pages for guidance, etc. and anything you can accomplish within the SharePoint communication site is what you can share with the external user once they are invited and sign into your site.

Thanks, Mark