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Brass Contributor

Oct 16, 2017

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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

Becky,

Just to clarify, Groups or Teams? The link you shared to enable it is for Groups (which is an underlying feature of Teams). You can add non-Office 365 external users to groups (albeit they don’t have access to everything in the group), but like other have said, for Teams anything other than an Office 365 account for external access to teams isn’t available yet.

Just wanted to make sure you weren’t confusing Teams and Groups as the external access ability for the two of them is different.

Christopher-Graves

Iron Contributor

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