How do I grant an external user access to my SharePoint site?

ScottDarth 0 Reputation points
2024-09-19T12:17:59.14+00:00

My tenant allows the least restrictive sharing restrictions (anyone).

I have granted access to person@external-domain.net, but when that person tries to log in to my SharePoint site, they still get this error message:User's image

What am I missing? person@external-domain.net shows up as a guest user when I go to the "New Groups" in the "New Outlook," (because adding external users to a SharePoint group has to be done through Outlook) but even though that person shows up as a guest, they're still getting the error shown above.

Is there somewhere else I go to approve access for person@external-domain.net?

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  1. Cesar Lopez 140 Reputation points
    2024-09-19T14:07:14.2866667+00:00

    Hi,

    You need to add to the Sharepoint Resource Group in your tenant. For example, if you have a Sharepoint with name "Financial", it has a 3 groups (visit, owner and members) with differents permissions.

    For this, you need to go to the configuration options and check this

    User's image

    And add your user in one of the groups

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