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Best practice to add guest to AAD?
- 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.
Hi Joseph,
The short answer is no – both ways create “shadow” accounts in your tenant, which the B2B user then needs to redeem before use.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/b2b/redemption-experience
Some customers manage and restrict account creation using the B2B portal, or create B2B accounts for their users to then assign to resources.
If you’d like to restrict B2B account creation, please refer to the ‘External collaboration settings’ blade.
Hope this helps.
Apologises, didn't see the other replies :)
If you'd like to move B2B invitations away from SPO/Teams, try the B2B portal or delegate one of the 3rd parties B2B accounts, the Guest Inviter role.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/b2b/delegate-invitations
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/b2b/self-service-portal