[Solved] 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.

In this SharePoint Online tutorial, we will discuss how to solve the error: 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.

This error comes while trying to share site collections with external users in SharePoint Online office 365.

Recently we created a new site collection in SharePoint Online and tried to share with external users but we got the error as 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.

Let us first discuss the SharePoint online external sharing feature.

As an organization lots of times, you need to share documents or information with external users apart from your internal users in SharePoint Online.

Those external users may be your clients, partners, vendors, or customers, etc.

SharePoint Online provides a very good feature known as external sharing features in SharePoint Online which allows sharing content with people outside your organization.

Also, we need to understand what are external users? An external user is users outside of your Office 365 subscription. There is two kinds of external users:

1- Authenticated users: These users will have a Microsoft account, school account, or they will have an account from another Office 365 subscription. These users can do basic collaboration tasks even if you can share sites or documents the same way we share with internal users.

2- Anonymous users: Anonymous users are users who have a shareable link to a folder or document and can view or edit the document or upload to the folder (depending on the type of link) without having to log in with a username or password.

These users will not be able to access sites, you can not access licenses to these users. They can only view or edit the specific document or folder for which they have an anonymous access link.

We have to enable external sharing at the tenant level as well as at the site collection level of each SharePoint Online site collection.

Your organization’s policies don’t allow you to share with these users

Without enabling external sharing at tenant level if you will try to share to external users at site collection then you will receive the error: 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.

There are various options for sharing like:

• Don’t allow sharing outside your organization
• Allow sharing only with the external users that already exist in your organization’s directory
• Allow external users who accept sharing invitations and sign in as authenticated users
• Allow sharing with all external users, and by using anonymous access links
• To resolve the “your organization’s policies don’t allow you to share with these users’, we need to enable external users sharing at office 365 tenant level.

Follow the below steps:

First, open Office 365 Portal Admin page and log in with your account.

Then click on Admin icon like below:

Then in the Admin center page, Expand Admin centers from the left side and click on SharePoint to open the SharePoint Admin center like below:

Then in the SharePoint admin center, select the particular site collection URL and then click on Manage and then click on Sharing like below:

This will open the sharing dialog box, here choose the appropriate option, here I have chosen “Allow sharing with all external users, and by using anonymous access links” like below:

Once you will save it, after this if you will try now sharing with external users you will not get any error, instead, it will show a message like below:

After this step, you can now share documents with external users in your SharePoint Online site collection.

You may like following SharePoint Online Office 365 tutorials:

• 10 Tips To Get The Most Out Of Office 365
• Document deletion policy in SharePoint Online Office 365
• Office 365 steps to Remove Former Employee License and User account
• How to find which template is used for a site in SharePoint Online Office 365
• Grant user access to SharePoint site office 365
• HTTP Error 400 The size of the request headers is too long SharePoint Online Office 365
• Display Office 365 User Profile Properties in PowerApps
• The request service svc url could not be activated. See the server diagnostic trace logs for more information

I hope this article will be helpful to you to solve 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.