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Best practice to add guest to AAD?
I could give a guest access to SPO directly from the site's permissions settings, and I could give a guest access to Teams directly from the Teams interface (at least in a channel, if not in chat). I...
- Yeah, working on Desktop now, you used to not be able to pick, not sure when it got added, but it's there now :).
Anyway, so bottom line here, you should be able to chose, having a guest is not required. Test with my tenant if you wish, but if it works, and you can't do that with someone you're trying to reach and you don't get the "search externally for" and it doesn't connect, then they must not have their end configured, but inviting them or adding them as a guest to your tenant allows them to tenant switch to chat, which isn't the same as federation.
Anyway, let us know if you have other questions or need help with more testing.
It all depends on how your org works..users can’t add users in AAD! If you want to control what guests are invited in the organization- pre add them is a good way to have control! Then you can set permissions for users to add the guests that’s already in the tenant!
Most orgs wants users to be able to add guests themselves via sharing, teams etc..
Also a scenario to pre add in AAD is if you collaborate with another company and want all those users as guests, it’s a good idea to mass import them into AAD
Most orgs wants users to be able to add guests themselves via sharing, teams etc..
Also a scenario to pre add in AAD is if you collaborate with another company and want all those users as guests, it’s a good idea to mass import them into AAD
Hi. thanks. Yes, I should have added that I'm aware of the differing abilities of users and admins to add guests in AAD. i think your reply implicitly answers the question, though, that there is no downside, and potentially some upsides, to pre-adding a guest in AAD. My actual situation is that there are two externals with whom I need regularly to chat across a number of different projects. I could add them into a Teams channel without pre-registering them in AAD, but sometimes the chats need to be outside the project-oriented Teams channels. To add them as a contact in Teams chat, I think I'll need to pre-register them as guest users in AAD. Sounds like there's no reason not to do that--right?
- Hi!
They will already be guests in AAD, created during the invitation process to teams
