Galactic Collaboration Summit 2020

In these challenging times, the adoption of modern workplace, remote working and distance learning technologies has increased massively. Among our aims for the Galactic Collaboration Summit is to help businesses, schools, and individuals to navigate their way through the modern workplace, support their collaboration requirements, understand processes and challenges, and get acquainted with the technologies underneath it all. 

Session Details

Topic: Teams and Office 365 External Sharing - Unstructured and Structured 

Teams and Office 365 external sharing is all about publishing or collaborating with people outside of your organization. Users will find ways to do it with or without IT support (typically through email or shadow IT), so it's important for IT to provide an easy way for them to do it effectively and securely. 

Sharing can be done in a number of different ways.  Unstructured sharing to a small set of external users works well with the OOTB SharePoint features.  External users can also be invited in as full Microsoft Teams guests for collaboration. As the scale increases, structured sharing with a large number of external users needs alternatives such as Azure AD B2B, custom code or third party solutions.  We'll discuss options available and what makes sense where using real world examples. In this session we will cover both configuring sharing appropriately, and the user experience for both content sharers and recipients.  We'll go through a number of different scenarios. 

• Configuring and sharing individual files and folders through Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive for Business 
• An open source provisioning solution (http://eum.co/teams-provisioning) to define the external sharing policies as Teams and SharePoint sites are created 
• Inviting external users as full members of Teams 
• Leveraging Azure AD B2B (Business to Business) to bring users into your SharePoint Online sites 
• Using Microsoft's Entitlement Management Portal's Access Packages (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/governance/entitlement-management-overview) or Extranet User Manager (http://eum.co) for onboarding external users 
• Using a sample Logic App or Extranet Publisher (http://eum.co/publisher) to publish SharePoint Online content to an Azure website

               Peter Carson
 

 

As the founder and President of Extranet User Manager, Peter brings over 30 years of technology consulting, certified engineering skills, database design, and application development – combined with strong communication, analytical planning, and business skills. Peter possesses unparalleled technical skills. His excellent understanding of business needs of both small and large organizations in the health care, financial, distribution, service, franchisee, and public-sector markets have proven invaluable to our clients.

Within the Microsoft Community, Peter is known as a partner-evangelist for leading-edge Microsoft Technology. Well recognized as a leader in the SharePoint community, Peter speaks regularly at SharePoint user group meetings, conferences, Microsoft events such as Tech Days, and local universities. In recognition of this, Microsoft has awarded Peter the Microsoft MVP designation (Office Apps and Services) for the past nine years.