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External Users need access to Teams Meetings ONLY
For context: my company has Business Premium 365 licenses and we have stood-up and are using Teams for internal collaboration, however we have not yet migrated our company email (hosted by gmail) to ...
Hi cstevens44
You have to differentiate "guest users" vs "Teams external users":
- "Guest users" are users known from Azure AD B2B with whom you can collaborate (e.g. within a Teams) or share content (e.g. within SharePoint)
- "External users" are users with whom you communicate through Teams (1:1 or 1:N chat or meeting). They are not registered in your Azure AD
The prerequisite for external users is to authorize the federation between your tenant and the tenant of your external users. By default, this setting (Teams Admin Center > Users > External Access) is set to "allow external domains". What is the status in your organization?
If you want to enable non authenticated users, you can activate the feature "Anonymous users can join a meeting".
Hope this helps!
Thank you for your response! And to clarify I am indeed talking about "external users" as ones that we are not adding as Guests in the AD.
Our organizational status is already set to "allow all external domains".
Our meeting settings for 'non-authenticated users' is set to Off via the "Anonymous users can join a meeting" feature. Do I need to turn this on, or should external users already be able to join without doing so?