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Can I give an external user access to log in to our Teams and use chat?
We have a class of user who is an employee of a 3rd party but works in our org in a role similar to some of our employees. They use a computer provided by their employer, and log in to that employer...
Steve Whitcher No, the guest account must be a member of at least one Team. Imagine if some users should only access a file or SharePoint site and if all of them could chat to each other 🙂
That's too bad. We use a lot more 1:1 chat than we do Teams conversations, and that's really what we need these non-staff users to have. Is there no way to do that without creating a user account for them in our domain?
I'm no licensing expert, but maybe you could assign them a Teams license? Or, if they are from a specific domain (e.g.: gmail.com), you could set up federated authentication. Again, I'm no expert on that, so I can't tell you how to do it. This page may help: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/manage-external-access