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External Users in SharePoint Online, part II: External User Accepts Invitation

Office 365, SharePoint, SharePoint 2013 - Toni Frankola - June 10, 2014

In the last post, I showed how to invite an external user to SharePoint. Let’s see what this experience looks like for a person you invited to join the SharePoint website. There are two different use cases here.   Use case 1 If an external user has Microsoft or Organizational account,…

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External Users in SharePoint Online, Part I: How to Invite an External User

Office 365, SharePoint, SharePoint 2013 - Toni Frankola - June 6, 2014

To add external users to your SharePoint project or any other site, click the “Share” button at the top right of any page on your site. In the pop-up window, on the default tab “Invite people”, enter email address(es) of the person(s) you want to invite and make sure checkbox…

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Use case: Automatically importing user profile pictures to SharePoint 2013 (and 2010)

SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013 - Toni Frankola - December 23, 2012

In last three years I helped numerous customers to install and configure SharePoint 2010 (2013). New User Profile Service application introduced the ability to easily sync User Profile properties from & to Active Directory. In this article I will explain how you can leverage PowerShell to sync user profile photos…

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Auto populate Search suggestions for SharePoint People Search

SharePoint 2010 - Toni Frankola - August 9, 2012

One of mine customers wanted to replace their existing phone directory with the SharePoint OOTB user profiles. They already had all the data in the Active Directory and also had pictures for most employees, so SharePoint sounded like an obvious choice. One of the requests was to have search as…

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