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How to automatically add a guest to a team in Teams?
Hello, I can add a guest to a Teams team using this procedure: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/add-guests-to-a-team-in-teams. I'd like to automate this procedure so that when one of my s...
- Thanks MattB365, but Microsoft has finally announced webinars for Teams. If it lives up to the hype, this is the answer I've been waiting for (rolling out May 2021).
From a programmatic point of view, I'm pretty sure you can cover the scenario you have described here. I have not checked what Power Automate actions for Teams are available Today, but if adding Guest to Teams are not among then, you could do it by means for instance of an Azure Function that you could call from your Power Automate. The downside here are the licensing requirements
jcgonzalezmartin. Thanks for the tip. I've been exploring Power Automate actions and while there is an action to create a user in Azure Active Directory, it is an organisation user and not a guest user. There doesn't seem to be an action for creating guest users in AAD that I could then add to a Teams team.
Of course, creating an Azure Function is always an option. All I have to do is throw out Power Automate, forget about citizen development and hire a professional developer instead :0
- Indeed!