This configuration is valid for all other Office 365 Services as well which uses Azure B2B based external access like OneDrive, MS Teams, Planner etc.
If the user, with whom the content has been shared, is already logged into any google service, like gmail, he/she won’t even need to enter any password! Neat, isn’t it? No multiple steps invitation redemption, no remembering different passwords. So, you share any document/folder/site with any external user’s gmail ID and they can just login with their own gmail password. What does Google Federation mean?įor the newbees in SharePoint Online world, this simply means that external users will be able to access the shared content with them using their existing gmail ID and password. This could really help organizations push through the external sharing feature to business users, who have been a bit reluctant in adopting OneDrive content Sharing due to complex sharing invitation redemption experience. In combination with “ SharePoint and OneDrive integration with Azure AD B2B“, google federation makes external sharing of SharePoint Online and OneDrive content/sites a piece of cake. After some initial bumps like the requirement of having to register external accounts as microsoft accounts (remember gmail ID registered as microsoft ID, still confusing right?), Microsoft seems to have got it right this time. External access of SharePoint Online content has come a long way since my previous article about a similar topic.