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Copper Contributor

Mar 23, 2017

B2B and SPO

Hi We have tried to manually create guest users in the new Azure Portal. When we do it that way, we are apparently not able to grant the guest users access to SPO sites. But if we create the user...

Azure AD B2B

PWrobel
Mar 28, 2017
Hi Jakob

According to this doc this is by design https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/active-directory-b2b-faq. See the question about SPO people picker:

Are B2B collaboration guest users visible in SharePoint Online/OneDrive people picker?

Yes! However, the ability to search for existing guest users in the SharePoint Online people picker is OFF by default to match legacy behavior. You can enable this using the setting 'ShowPeoplePickerSuggestionsForGuestUsers' at the tenant and site collection level. This can be set using the Set-SPOTenant and Set-SPOSite cmdlets, which allow members to search all existing guest users in the directory. Changes in the tenant scope do not affect already provisioned SharePoint Online sites.

So all you need to do it to run the above mentioned cmdlets to see the added users in the picker.

Jakob Rohde

Copper Contributor

Hi Joe

You can create guest users, using the new Azure Portal. It is a relatively new feature. It's the same process as when you create internal users, except you specify them ad "Guest User". But when we create guest users this way, they do not show up in the people picker in SharePoint Online.

The guest users we create by importing a CSV-file in the old Azure Portal, do show up in the people picker.

Regards

Jakob

PWrobel

Microsoft

Mar 28, 2017

Hi Jakob

According to this doc this is by design https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/active-directory-b2b-faq. See the question about SPO people picker:

Are B2B collaboration guest users visible in SharePoint Online/OneDrive people picker?

Yes! However, the ability to search for existing guest users in the SharePoint Online people picker is OFF by default to match legacy behavior. You can enable this using the setting 'ShowPeoplePickerSuggestionsForGuestUsers' at the tenant and site collection level. This can be set using the Set-SPOTenant and Set-SPOSite cmdlets, which allow members to search all existing guest users in the directory. Changes in the tenant scope do not affect already provisioned SharePoint Online sites.

So all you need to do it to run the above mentioned cmdlets to see the added users in the picker.

Sarat Subramaniam
Microsoft
Apr 04, 2017
Thank you Pawel! Jakob - can you please confirm this works for you?
- Jakob Rohde
  Copper Contributor
  Apr 06, 2017
  Thanks. We will test, and get back to you asap.
Brian Beasley
Copper Contributor
Apr 14, 2017
I don't see -ShowPeoplePickerSuggestionsForGuestUsers for either cmdlet - does anyone else?
- Jakob Rohde
  Copper Contributor
  Apr 15, 2017
  Yes, I do. And I have tested it and it works as expected.
  - Brian Beasley
    Copper Contributor
    Apr 17, 2017
    I see it now! Looks like I needed to re-download SPO powershell.