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Manual creation of external users
As we know, "Allow sharing only with the external users that already exist in your organization's directory" is the default for Groups.
Given that a customer of mine doesn't want to change such default (and in general doesn't want to use PowerShell), which is the best practice for them to create in advance external users in their organization's directory before sharing items with such external users?
I guess that they must in any case use the AAD portal, but while they could directly create external users having MS accounts, they should use instead B2B in order to create external users having O365 accounts. Am I correct?
- Ey Salvatore,
Sorry, I missunderstood your question :-(...you are right, it's not possible to manually add users from other Office 365 tenant in Azure AD. You need to use the B2B approach
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- Ey Salvatore, IMHO you are correct ...only downside of Azure B2B is that it's limited to professional accounts...of course, customer can manually add the users using Azure AD Portal
Thanks Juan.
Unfortunately, when they add users manually (using Azure AD Portal) it appears that while they can add directly individual MS accounts, they are instead forced to use the B2B procedure (i.e. the CSV) even to add a single O365 (external) account.
In other words, they have not found a way in the AAD portal to add manually just one (f.e.) O365 external account without having to create a CSV for the B2B procedure.
Can you confirm?
- Hello Salvatore,
That sounds very strange...I have just added a hotmail.com user in the Azure AD portal with no problems using the manual approach
