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Patrick Kairns
Copper Contributor
Oct 11, 2016

Need step by step instrux on adding external user to O365 Group, please

I need step-by-step istructions on adding an external guest to an Office365 Group. These are the steps I've been using and the results I am getting: I want to add aan external guest with a gmail.co...
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jcgonzalezmartin
MVP
Oct 11, 2016
If your external guests need to use a GMail account, they will have to map to a Live ID...for now there is no another approach to login in Office 365 Groups resources
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Patrick Kairns
Copper Contributor
Oct 11, 2016

Thanks Juan Carlos

 

This is gonna sound really dumb, but how would I map a Gmail account to an Outlook.com account to login to the O365 Group automatically or semi-auto (i.e. having to sign into MSFT account to authenticate).

 

I'm having a "Brain F**T" on the procedure. :-)

 

Pat

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      Patrick Kairns
      Copper Contributor
      Oct 12, 2016

      Hi Sonia.

       

      Thanks for the link. Looks like it will work, but I have something wonky going on in my tenant as for some unknown

      reason I can't add external users to my External Group.....LOL. Adding external users worked fine until JUST NOW! :-)

      I'm looking through all the Admin stuff. I might have unchecked/checked something inadvertantly. I'll get back to you with the results when I can.

       

      Thanks again

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      jcgonzalezmartin
      MVP
      Oct 12, 2016
      Yep, the link that Sonia shared is the one you have to use to map a Gmail account to a Live ID...this page also worked for professional accounts but it's not working anymore

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