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FloStu
Copper Contributor
Feb 18, 2019

Exchange with external persons (service providers and freelancers)

Hi,   we cooperate with many external persons (service providers and freelancers). These people must be able to receive and send e-mails on our behalf, and are licensed with Exchange Online (Plan 1...
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FloStu
Copper Contributor
Feb 18, 2019

Hi ChrisHoardMVP,

 

the external persons should only have access (send/receive) to their own company e-mails, they should not have any rights like normal users/employees and should therefore see internal information such as calendars, groups, persons, tasks. Basically they should be guests with a company e-mail address.

 

Flo

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ChrisHoardMVP
MVP
Feb 18, 2019
Hi FloStu,

I am not aware of any functionality which would permit a user to be a guest at the same time as having a mailbox within your Office 365 environment

adam deltinger ChrisWebbTech - am I wrong here?

Best, Chris
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    FloStu
    Copper Contributor
    Feb 20, 2019

    Hi ChrisHoardMVP,

     

    Funny, we can't be the only ones who work with external employees but want to limit them to email only?!

    I have set up a new Outlook Web Policy for testing, so the user only has the old view (no calendar or groups) if he click on the Outlook icon at the O365 dashboard but if he knows the url (https://outlook.office365.com/mail/inbox) he will end up in the new Outlook.

     

    Best, Flo

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    adam deltinger
    MVP
    Feb 18, 2019

    hmm, not that I'm familiar with! 

     

    Adam