In order to grant guests, cooperation partners, or external project partners access to your SharePoint, the respective person must be assigned the role “Member of organizational unit” by the responsible role manager.

Guests do not necessarily have to be entered in the organization directory in order to gain access to SharePoint. However, it may be necessary to make an entry if guests are to be able to take on additional roles in your organizational unit that require an entry with a work email address.

To gain access to the respective SharePoint as a guest, please proceed as follows:

Step 1

Redeem the “Member organizational unit” coupon.

You can obtain the coupon from your partner at RWTH.

Step 2

Set up your multi-factor authentication in SelfService.

Step 3

Create the account “RWTH Collaboration” in IdM Selfservice under “Create account.”

Step 4

Once the account has the status “confirmed,” set the password for the account in IdM Selfservice.

Step 5

Contact the responsible SharePoint administrator so that they can grant you permissions to access SharePoint.

The administrator will need your user ID in the form “ab123456.”

Step 6

Once you have been assigned the necessary permissions, you can log in to SharePoint with your RWTHCollaboration account and access it.