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Sharing a SharePoint Online site with external users is easy

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People who need to see or work with your SharePoint Online site content but who don’t have user accounts for your SharePoint Online environment are considered “external users.” External users might be vendors or customers, for example. With SharePoint Online, after you activate the sharing feature, you can invite an external user to your site just by sending them an email with an invitation (the invitation expires after one use).

Just follow the simple three steps in the article "Share a site with external users" to enable the sharing feature and then follow the steps in this article "Grant permissions for a site" to grant and restrict access to your site and content. This is called managing permissions and you do it by using security groups, which control membership, or by using fine-grained permissions, which help you control content at the item or document level.

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The Office 365 terminology for external users is Partner Access Licenses (PALs). A PAL

  • is free (service plan caps apply, currently 500 for the P plan and 10,000 for the E plan)
  • is granted permission by the site admin and can have Read, Contribute, or Owner permission
    • When composing an invitation to a PAL you'll have the option of granting the invitee either contributor or viewer - member or visitor - permissions. Once the invitee has accepted the invitation you'll be able to move the invitee to another security group if needed.
    • Invitees who hasnt accepted an invitation (yet) do not show up in the list of users since their userid doesnt exist
  • that is an Owner have the ability to invite others PALs
  • can read documents, but cannot edit them via the Web Apps (editing with own licensed Office rich client is allowed)
  • can get site feeds, but do not get a MySite, cannot receive company feeds or follow others
  • can be invited using any email address that is registered in the LiveID system

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Comments

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    If so, it would be in the user profiles in the SharePoint Admin. Haven't tested it myself.

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Thanks. Fixed.

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    May 31, 2012
    Is it possible to set the display name for PALs to identify them more easily rather than something like: live.com#email-address?

  • Anonymous
    June 08, 2012
    Can External Users also use search in a Website-Collection?

  • Anonymous
    July 23, 2012
    Aaron, your external users need to add their first and last name to their Windows Live ID.  They can do this by logging in at login.live.com.  If they are already in SharePoint, you will need to remove them from their groups and delete from overall site collection, then resend the invitation to join SharePoint.  This will then display their first and last name.  The live ID will still be used to search for and add users to fields in SharePoint however.

  • Anonymous
    August 10, 2012
    The office.microsoft.com/en-us... links seems to be broken, since they only redirect to office.microsoft.com/en-us

  • Anonymous
    September 30, 2013
    When I invited a user via their corporate user, and they logged in via their Hotmail address, once they accessed the SharePoint Online environment, it resolved their name to their Hotmail profile name, and now it's even harder to assess who is internal vs external when looking at user names.  How can we manage 10,000 external users when we can't even see who is external?  MSFT needs to add a flag field for external users.

  • Anonymous
    February 20, 2016
    Not that I'm counting but I just realized one of my blog posts actually is closing in on 100k views