Fix "Your organization's policies don't allow you to share with these users. Go to External Sharing in the Office 365 admin center to enable it" Error in SharePoint Online
Problem: When trying to Share a document with an external user, received the error message: "Your organization's policies don't allow you to share with these
users. Go to External Sharing in the Office 365 admin center to enable it."
Root cause: External Sharing is disabled either at tenant level or site collection level!
Solution: Enable External Sharing for SharePoint Online at tenant level and site collection level. Follow these steps to enable external users sharing in SharePoint Online tenant.
External Sharing is already Enabled, Still getting this error message?
Well, this could be because: At the time of creating the site collection, External Sharing may have disabled in SharePoint Online Admin Center and the site collection inherited that configuration. So, to fix the problem, You have to enable external sharing at site collection level too.
How to Enable External Sharing at Site Collection Level?
You can enable external sharing at site collection level using new SharePoint Online admin center!
Get External Sharing Settings of a SharePoint Online Site Collection:
You can also use this PowerShell script in SharePoint Online Management Shell to check if external sharing of a SharePoint Online site collection is disabled.
SharePoint Online: Enable External Sharing for a Site Collection using PowerShell
To turn on external sharing for a site, use this PowerShell:
Done! That's all. Now you should be able to share from SharePoint Online site with external (guest) users.
Root cause: External Sharing is disabled either at tenant level or site collection level!
Solution: Enable External Sharing for SharePoint Online at tenant level and site collection level. Follow these steps to enable external users sharing in SharePoint Online tenant.
External Sharing is already Enabled, Still getting this error message?
Well, this could be because: At the time of creating the site collection, External Sharing may have disabled in SharePoint Online Admin Center and the site collection inherited that configuration. So, to fix the problem, You have to enable external sharing at site collection level too.
How to Enable External Sharing at Site Collection Level?
You can enable external sharing at site collection level using new SharePoint Online admin center!
- Go to SharePoint Online Admin Center >> Select the desired Site collection from the list
- Click on "Sharing" button >> Set the sharing settings appropriately, such as "New and existing external users". Click on "Save" to commit your changes.
Get External Sharing Settings of a SharePoint Online Site Collection:
You can also use this PowerShell script in SharePoint Online Management Shell to check if external sharing of a SharePoint Online site collection is disabled.
#Set Admin Center URL $AdminCenterURL = "https://crescent-admin.sharepoint.com/" $SiteURL="https://crescent.sharepoint.com/sites/operations" #Connect to SharePoint Online Connect-SPOService -url $AdminCenterURL -Credential (Get-Credential) #Get the external sharing settings Get-SPOSite $SiteURL | Select -ExpandProperty SharingCapability
SharePoint Online: Enable External Sharing for a Site Collection using PowerShell
To turn on external sharing for a site, use this PowerShell:
#Set Admin Center URL $AdminCenterURL = "https://crescent-admin.sharepoint.com/" $SiteURL="https://crescent.sharepoint.com/sites/operations" #Connect to SharePoint Online Connect-SPOService -url $AdminCenterURL -Credential (Get-Credential) #Set the external sharing settings Set-SPOSite $SiteURL –SharingCapability "ExternalUserSharingOnly"
Done! That's all. Now you should be able to share from SharePoint Online site with external (guest) users.
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