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External users only for meeting
- You just update meeting settings to allow it. It lets anyone with a meeting link to join your meetings. They won’t have access to channels etc.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/meeting-settings-in-teams
Khushi Shaikh Hello, let me add some additional context to the previous reply.
When you federate (external access) there's no access to Teams resources. If you use allow or block lists with external access you have to consider that you either block all besides or allow all besides the list. That's also described in Teams admin center when you set this up. If you want someone to access resources in a team you usually enable Guest access as that's more permissive.
As you say you've federated with full access to everything I'm thinking that you might mean that you've enabled Cross-tenant access settings in preview? (that's B2B collaboration).
For teams meetings you can invite just anyone, they don't even have to use a Teams account to join a Teams meeting. But if you're using allow/block lists for domains you probably want to allow "anonymous join" which I believe ChrisWebbTech is referring to so anyone with access to the link can join your Teams meetings.
- You are correct @ChristianJBergstorm We enabled Cross-tenant access for our partners to collaborate and they can fully access Teams they just need to switch to our tenant in teams.
With this anonymous access setting, does it means we don't need to manage accounts of users (sending email invite to consumer emails like gmail.com or yahoo.com) joining meeting as anonymous users? How does this works? I am so confused with guest users vs anonymous users.- It literally means, anyone that has the link to the meeting can join. No login required. You can just use web browser to join. Or anyone logged into Teams can as well. Not much more to it than that.
