Let Guest access work like SharePoint guest access.
Let Guest access work like SharePoint guest access.
Currently guest users are required to have a Teams subscription in their own tenant. It would be very helpful if guest access in Teams would function like guest access in SharePoint Online, including restricting the ability to invite guests to only those already in the Azure Active Directory associated with the tenant.
Stefan
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A Val
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Due to the COVID-19 lockdowns, many universities are depending on more external teachers/coaches for help with extra classes. We constantly struggle with adding guests to common SharePoint groep sites. Even when our admin tries to force a guest through AAD, the Microsoft settings of guests ends up blocking access to our environment. We end up forcing external coaches to use private email addresses just to access a simple SharePoint folder.
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John Helmers
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In my experience, an effective team will ALWAYS include "guests" and so the current implementation of MS Teams is worthless for my organization. By not allowing invited outsiders to fully participate, it doubles the work if internally you use MS Teams. Not useful.
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Matthew
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And, this should be way easier than having to use Azure to set up a guest. You should be able to invite a guest user from right inside teams with any email address and without an Office account to participate in team conversations. The lack of this functionality is what is keeping our teamwork, chat and conferencing with our current provider.
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Stan Drozdetski
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Yes, this is absolutely critical for us. We are bringing our external users as "guests" and are also using auto-accelerate (on the SharePoint Online side) to auth users via a 3rd-party identity provider. It is highly discouraging that this doesn't work the same way for Teams.
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Anonymous
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I have successfully added an external user with a Gmail account to our Azure AD. I am unable to invite the external user to a Team. I receive "You are not authorized" message when I select the Add button. I have all required permissions set appropriately, so I'm led to believe this error is because the guest user does not have a Teams subscription.
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Christine Geluk
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Yes!!! I agree that having way to resend the guest invitation would be convenient. Further, having the ability to review guest access like seeing when a guest accepted and if there access was successful.
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Chuck
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Yes; Our biggest difficulty is adding outside clients to our Teams because of various email issues.
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Greg Maxwell
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Being able to resend an invite to a guest is much needed. From Teams, Groups, OneDrive etc. Outside vendors delete the original share link too often so we need a way to send the same invite back out to the guest. Creating new links is very confusing and is very backwards from the O365 stream lined ways.
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Chris Webb
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Would be really nice if Teams piggy backed off SharePoint's access request system, and or groups. Or a new unified group guest access request experience was introduced to manage guest users.
Having those abilities for guest invites sent from Teams/Groups/Planner would be nice if they all used this UI so you can resend etc. Would also extremely help if you could see the login id that the users accepted on microsoft account so we know which account they accepted and are using for login to our accounts.