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Guests and Chat in Teams
onethreeone Hey! I believe you've figured this out yourself as you mentioned the delay. Yes, it takes quite some time for the policies to take effect.
For your information I have set up your settings (the ones you've attached) and created an anon account (Gmail). Scheduled a meeting and copied the Teams link into an email and sent it to the newly created anon address (no association at all with my tenant) and this anon user could join the meeting after being let in and participate in a chat.
In other words, as long as the settings are OK you don't have to worry about the guest accounts in AAD.
Hope that helps!
ChristianBergstrom Sorry, I didn't mean to say "most". No, I was the only one who could access Chat. I'd added the chair to my Team as a proper Guest and he couldn't access it either. Having looked into it some more I think I may have changed the settings the afternoon before the meeting in the evening. As I understand it the settings can sometimes take several hours to percolate through. Is that right?
The odd thing I noticed was that some users appeared as "Guests" and some did not.
Messaging policies look like this. I've only got a single Global policy as I'm a freelancer so don't use Teams within my own tenant as I'm the only user. I assume therefore that the policies are assigned to me.
Meeting options looked like this
I really appreciate your help with this. Thanks again
onethreeone Hey! I believe you've figured this out yourself as you mentioned the delay. Yes, it takes quite some time for the policies to take effect.
For your information I have set up your settings (the ones you've attached) and created an anon account (Gmail). Scheduled a meeting and copied the Teams link into an email and sent it to the newly created anon address (no association at all with my tenant) and this anon user could join the meeting after being let in and participate in a chat.
In other words, as long as the settings are OK you don't have to worry about the guest accounts in AAD.
Hope that helps!
ChristianBergstrom Oh that's great news!
The really big meeting is tomorrow night so I'll let you know how it goes
Once again, thank you so much for your help
tack så mycket
onethreeone No worries! (inga problem 😉 While you're at it do take a look at the Global meeting policy as well (not only the messaging policy). Under "Participants & guests".
Good luck!