Adding external users to teams

The big "sale" at MS Ignite 2017 for Teams was the ability to add external guests to your team. In session after session this was demonstarted. Even at their booth at the exhibit hall, I went to ask ...

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Christopher-Graves
Oct 18, 2017
I've started another thread on a particular issue where we have seen inconsistent behaviour when adding guests to the Office 365 Groups with Teams functionality:
Those teams (groups) created from the "Teams" tile do not send a Guest welcome email to guests added via the email/members conversation area
Those teams (groups) created from Outlook and then upgraded to have "Teams" DO send a Guest welcome email to guests added via the email/members conversation area
We have guest access enabled for Office 365 Groups but not the Teams front end.

See the full conversation and respond here if interested:
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Teams/Guest-welcome-email-for-Office-365-Groups-created-via-quot-Teams/m-p/117739#M8239

BenStegink

Iron Contributor

Oct 17, 2017

Yeah...sorry, whoever told you it was available for non-Office 365 accounts was mistaken. Here is the article on setting it up/using it from just prior to Ignite. It clearly states in the FAQ that it's only for Work and School accounts right now - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/guest-access?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US.

We're all hoping it comes to non-Office 365, but for now all we can do is wait unfortunately. Sorry you got the impression and were told it was available now for any type of account.

Becky Martin

Brass Contributor

Oct 17, 2017

Yes, apparently so as that is what all my research as well as others have told me. Disappointed but guess I will go back to waiting for the feature.

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