Hello
We have an O365 tenant which includes SP Online for our company. Our employees signon with their company email addresses.
If we want to give external users access to our SP Online, this is possible as perhttps://support.office.com/en-us/article/turn-external-sharing-on-or-off-for-sharepoint-online-6288296a-b6b7-4ea4-b4ed-c297bf833e30
I believe this assumes that the external users belong to an O365 tenant already?
We have many customers from several different companies that will need access – many of these will not have their own O365 tenants, and they become discouraged if they have to purchase anything additional like their own O365 tenant.
How can we give these users access to our SP Online environment?
One thought we had was to define them ourselves in a new tenant/subscription (thereby keeping them separate from our employees). Would that mean they couldn’t use their own email addresses? (not ideal but not a show stopper).
Does Microsoft have a best practice for this scenario? Can someone clarify this for me?
Thank you
Marcel