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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.
I’ve been able to use federation from the desktop client when same mail is used as guest in my AAD! This was tested not long ago though
Adam
Adam
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.
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.
That's not true, if you chat with your "Guest" account, then they have to tenant switch. If you use federation, it goes straight to their tenant chat tab. it's a split that would be nice if they can consolidate it someday.
But again, it depends on how the account is setup, if they are actually invited to Teams, and a guest account is tied to that, then they have to switch, otherwise it's using federation.
But as you can see, it's all confusing :)
- No, I think I'm good. Thanks for letting me test. Just one note: adding as a guest does not require tenant switching if the conversation is under the Chat tab instead of the Teams tab. Again, thanks for sticking with this thread.
