SharePoint Online External sharing of sites and files

Manage external sharing in SharePoint Online and OneDrive. Give your users a secure and manageable solution to share data with external parties.

Enable external sharing, configure and secure it and learn how to use external sharing in Office 365.

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⏰ Timestamps
00:00 - Title
00:21 - Introduction
01:45 - Why do you need external sharing in your company?
03:09 - Enable external sharing in SharePoint and OneDrive
06:07 - Configure external sharing
07:53 - Turn on external sharing on SharePoint site
09:29 - Sharing experience
11:36 - Accessing shared data
12:47 - Conclusion
14:09 - Outro

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[johnruss]

This video useful for us! Thanks for sharing.

[dougmenzies]

Really appreciated this video. Thanks for taking the time to make and explain the security.

[martinhagedorn]

Great explanation, Szymon, thanks. Saved me a ton of reading the MS documentation (comprehensive, but it's hard to find what you need for a certain problem)

[gumundureiriksson]

Thanks a lot, it's the same for directories

[mikeburke]

thanks for the presentation. I keep getting an error message when attempting to share a site that says my organization policies do not allow to share with these uses and to go to the external sharing in office 365 to enable it. Can you provide instructions on enabling that functionality?

[srujanapujari]

Is there an option to get alert when file has shared to external user? if yes can you please help me with the steps

[creatorkannan]

Hi I need to share external user without any acc. If it's incognito the page want to open. How to do it

[simplesole]

how can i restrict donwloading for external and guest users aside from the block download option? is there a more broad way?

[sauguad]

I want to send the link of my site to anyone outside organisation.
I set up everything to ‘anyone’ both in the admin center (global setting) and on the selected active site. But when I tried to copy the link for sharing, it shows that the “anyone with link” is still greyed out. 😢
Is it possible to share link of the sharepoint “site” with anyone outside organisation without signing-in at all?

[Mo-dgxi]

Thank you Szymon! I learned some new ways to manage external users. What do you recommend to share an entire Sharepoint site with external users?

[GrouseHiker]

Thanks for clarifying this. It seems there should be a global "Read" option in addition to "Edit" and "View" to allow downloading but not editing...

[mateuszfelczak]

Panie Szymonie, jeśli można to mam pytanie odnośnie tego udostępniania. Mamy w organizacji włączone udostępnianie tylko dla istniejących gości. Gości zapraszam zakładając konta gościa przez Azure AD. W jaki sposób mogę sprawdzić kto ma dostęp i do czego? W witrynach widzę jedynie właścicieli i administratorów którzy są członkami naszej organizacji. Cała reszta trafia do grupy członkowie witryny, ale nie widzę nigdzie możliwości zobaczenia kto w tej grupie jest.

[julianpinn]

Thanks but it doesn't work. The user clicks on the link in the email and then gets a screen that says, "We're sorry, but [external email address] can't be found in the [site domain name] directory." Can you please help?

[WojciechSkowron-lucn]

Czy jest sposób żeby SP online zintegrować przez SSO z zewnetrzna aplikacja?

[musepianoacademy]

I've tried everything even open up a ticket with Microsoft and I still can't understand why my visitors can not see my website.