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Patrick Kairns
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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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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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        Patrick Kairns
        Copper Contributor
        Oct 12, 2016

        Thanks Tony et al...

         

        Tony your link is very good, but I have run into a snag. I have a call into Microsoft Support to help me.

        I can't add Guests anymore to my Outlook on the Web Groups. Something is wrong at my end, but I can't track it down, or the problem is at their end, which I'll find out soon enough after they call me back.

         

        I'll reply when I get this fixed.

         

        Thank you all for your help.

         

        Pat

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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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