Adding Guests to your Teams from Outside your Organization

https://admin.teams.microsoft.com/company-wide-settings/guest-configuration

Office 365 Microsoft Teams & Skype for Business Admin Center 1

Guest access in Teams lets people outside your organization access teams and channels. You can use the settings below to control which features guest users can or can’t use. Learn more at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-US/microsoftteams/guest-access?WT.mc_id=TeamsAdminCenterCSH

• Allow guest access in Microsoft Teams
• Calling Manage calling specific controls for guest users.
• Make private calls
• Meeting Turn on or turn off settings for guests in meetings.
• Allow IP video
• Screen sharing mode
• Allow Meet Now
• Messaging Turn on or turn off settings for guests in chats or channel conversations.
• Edit sent messages
• Guests can delete sent messages
• Chat
• Use Giphys in conversations
• Giphy content rating
• Use Memes in conversations
• Use Stickers in conversations

Here's some other earlier related info:

Before you can give guests access to Microsoft Teams your Azure AD administrator needs to enable the guest feature, which Microsoft explains in this tutorial video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g21Hcqdl5tI  If you haven't granted access to guests before you'll likely need to talk to IT first—the Teams guest feature is disabled by default.

1. Sign in to Microsoft Teams. On the left side is a list of the different teams inside your organization.
2. Right-click the name of the team you want to add a guest to. In the menu that pops up, select Add Members.
3. Type the email address of the person you wish to add. If outside your organization, Teams will automatically add them as a guest.
4. Wait for the user to accept the access request, and they'll be able to log in and use Teams just like a standard user.

Microsoft is pushing Teams, its chat-based collaboration platform and Slack competitor, hard.

Collaboration crosses company lines in the modern world: Freelancers, contractors, consultants, and other for-hire professionals are a part of most businesses at some point, and being able to include them in digital collaboration is essential.

Azure Active Directory administrators don't need to worry about security compromises: Guest accounts can be managed exactly the same as regular Active Directory members, so controlling access won't be an issue.

Adding guest members to Microsoft Teams is simple, provided the feature has been enabled ....

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-add-guest-accounts-to-your-microsoft-teams/

Microsoft Teams Best Practices for Managing Guest Access May 24, 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=86&v=vaJRRSjBxxY&feature=emb_logo

03/05/2024