Check out Luise Freese’s sketch note from Maarten Eekels’ and Rafael Lopez-Uricoechea’s session: Everything You Need to Know About External Sharing in Office 365 About Maarten Eekels Maarten Eekels (@maarteneekels) is Microsoft MVP and CTO of Portiva, one of the larger SharePoint and Office 365 implementation partners in the Netherlands. Maarten is an experienced Office 365 and SharePoint specialist… READ MORE
In earlier posts, we have seen how you can block Azure Portal access for Guest Users aka External Users, use Azure Portal roles to allow users, including guest users to invite guest users from partner organisation and restrict non-administrators of the Azure Active Directory from accessing the Azure Active Directory Administration Portal. Recap of this series: Block Azure… READ MORE
There is a very nice feature in SharePoint Online called External Sharing. This feature gives the ability to share content from within a SharePoint site collection to users that have a Microsoft Account or have an account in another Office 365 tenant. Once content is shared the external user can access the content exactly the same way an internal user from within the tenant can. There are some limitations as to what external users can do, for instance they cannot have their own OneDrive.So what is wrong with this concept? It sounds very nice and useful? And it certainly is…
In today’s world of dynamic workplaces and dynamic projects, we are faced with a lot of challenges. We are working with various people in various teams, sometimes within our own departments only but most of the time involving people working for other departments and, not so rare, people from different companies, like partners, customers and independent consultants. I was on all of these sides and I can tell you one thing, identity managemet was always a kind of a trouble. Big companies have identity management processes and procedures in place; however, there are a lot of small or mid-sized companies which had to work around this one way or another.
