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Azure AD B2B: New updates make cross-business collab easy
Thanks Juan.
From the blog article, about the new features: "Ability to invite a user with any email address to collaborate. Whether a user has an Office365 or on-premises Exchange email address, an outlook.com email address, or any social email address, he/she can now seamlessly access the invited organization with inline, lightweight creation of an Azure AD or Microsoft Account."
Unfortunately I have been unable to correctly add an outlook.com user. :smileysad:
In the portal the user appears to be added and the invite appears to be sent, but the recipient never received the invite.
Any ideas?
EDIT
Never mind: the user found the invite in the spam folder...
So it appears it worked!
- We you able to create a Custom Invitation? I don't see how to do that in my demo.microsoft.com tenant
Dean,
I don't know about B2B, but the invitation API (in beta) allows for customizing the experience (the message and directing to a specific URL when complete).
Im working on a blog post about it.
- Sarat Subramaniam
Microsoft
Paul - we're making a ton of updates to our documentation. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/active-directory-b2b-what-is-azure-ad-b2b
API and customization: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/active-directory-b2b-api
Code samples: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/active-directory-b2b-code-samples
I'd love for you to look at it and give us comments. As you write your blog post, if there's something you thought you'd see in the docs but don't, or if you have questions - reach out to me! :-)
Thanks for doing this! Also, do send me your blog link, would love to read and happy to tweet about it :-)
Not sure what you mean with "Custom Invitation" ?
You add the user (for now I have tried only with some MS accounts, which was what I needed), you specify some text to include in the invitation and the invite is automatically sent.
When the invite is redeemed by the recipient, the user is added to AAD.
In my case this was exactly what the doctor ordered, because my customer didn't want to change the default sharing for Groups and so the users with whom they wanted to share some Group folders had to be necessarily already in AAD.
In the announcement from MS, they mentioned the ability to specify a custom invitation email to send. see step 3 on https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/active-directory-b2b-what-is-azure-ad-b2b.
That is what I was referencing.
We are now able to share a folder with that external user (having an outlook.com account) also from a Group having the default setting of "ExistingExternalUserSharingOnly".
Awesome!
This is a very welcome update indeed!
Glad you and your customer are happy!
