can Guest Account (External Users) use Yammer in Modern Team Site - SharePoint Online

SGH 1,226

Can Guest Account (External Users) use Yammer Webpart in Modern Team Site ? Any separate license required ?

We are looking for discussion Forums where external users can raise or respond to questions in SharePoint Online Modern site.

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JoyZ 18,041 Reputation points

2020-12-02T02:21:37.917+00:00

Hi @SGH ,

Quote from Microsoft:

No. External users of any type will see an error message regardless of whether or not they are eligible to see the group in Yammer.

Reference:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/use-a-yammer-web-part-in-sharepoint-online-a53cfa0c-3d09-42c8-a286-1038a81c59da

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SGH 1,226 Reputation points

2020-12-02T04:58:14.683+00:00

Is there any Discussion Forum out of the box available in SharePoint Online for Where exernal users can raise or respond to questions ?

JoyZ 18,041 Reputation points

2020-12-02T07:25:25.193+00:00

Hi @SGH ,

Since the OOB Discussion Board web part doesn't work on modern page, as a workaround, we suggest you use News web part to keep your partners, team, and colleagues in the loop as well as engage them with important or interesting stories by using the News feature on your team site.

When external user clicks into the news at home page, they could add comment for the news post:

SGH 1,226 Reputation points

2020-12-02T12:00:50.797+00:00

In this case, is it possbile to give contribute permissions to News Sites Pages and only read permissions to other site pages in the Site Pages Library.

JoyZ 18,041 Reputation points

2020-12-04T01:57:00.297+00:00

Hi @SGH ,

Yes it's totally possible.

Set the Read permission for external users at Site Pages library level.

Then set the Contribution permission for the selected page through Manage access>Advanced>Stop Inheriting Permissions>Assign unique permissions for this page item.

Simple reference:

https://oit.unr.edu/services-and-support/data-storage/sharepoint/sharepoint-shared-documents/sharepoint-unique-permissions/

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JoyZ 18,041 Reputation points

2020-12-07T01:43:06.23+00:00

Hi @SGH ,

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JoyZ 18,041 Reputation points

2020-12-09T01:11:48.13+00:00

Hi @SGH ,

I’m checking how the things are going on about this issue. Whether the post helps you?

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Thank you for your understanding and support.
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