Sharing Loop Externally
It's in preview and a little confusing
First off, let me put this out there. I do not see the option to share a Loop page with external users in every tenant I have access to, but I do see it in one.
Most tenants show me a screen that permits me to share with anyone inside the organization when I try to share from Loop:
But this one shows me the option to share inside or outside of my tenant.
This is a feature that I find interesting. One, because external collaboration is the final frontier for Loop adoption. Every time I’ve talked about Loop or given a demonstration of the tool, it’s one of the first questions: “Can I share with people outside of my tenant?”
The answer has been no for a long time. That’s changing. This is exciting.
It’s also a little scary because the most interesting thing about Loop is how easy it is to use Loop without knowing you’re using it. For example, with Teams meeting agendas.
As of now, the agenda/Notes from a Teams meeting are shared with all internal participants, but outside folks can’t see them. I know a few people who depend on it working that way. They keep notes or use Copilot Facilitator to take notes that shouldn’t be seen by the external parties in the meeting.
That was the test I wanted to run first: are external users now getting access to the notes/agenda from a Teams meeting? The answer seemed to be yes, sort of. My external user didn’t see them in the Meeting, but they did have access if they had a link to access them outside the meeting.
It all felt a little unfinished. Honestly, I think it may change as this moves through the preview process into production.
Here are the details of the testing:
