These instructions are for Shared Drive Managers and Content Managers. It is possible to add members who do not have a University of Minnesota email account to a Shared Drive.
Adding members with existing Google Accounts
You can add anyone who has a Google Account associated with their email address to your Shared Drive.
- You can add members to your Shared Drive by following the steps provided by the Google for adding members and setting access levels.
- After you click Send or Add a Share outside of the organization?, the following dialog box will appear.
- Click Share anyway to add the member to the Shared Drive.
- Click CANCEL to not add the member to the Shared Drive.
Adding members without existing Google Accounts
When you try to add someone to a Shared Drive who does not have a Google account, a pop up window will indicate that Sharing to email addresses without a Google Account is not yet supported.
This message indicates that the email address being added does not have a Google Account associated with it. Any email address can have an associated Google Account. Having a Google Account does not require a Google Email (Gmail) address.
- The email owner will need to create a Google Account so they can be added to the Shared Drive.
- You can have the email owner create a Google Account at http://accounts.google.com/SignUpWithoutGmail
- This will create a Google Account associated with the provided email address.
- This will not create a Google Email (Gmail) address.
- You can have the email owner create a Google Account at http://accounts.google.com/SignUpWithoutGmail
- After the email owner has created a Google Account, you can then add them to your Shared Drive.
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