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Richard_Panton
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Mar 19, 2020
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Microsoft Teams Exploratory - Not Working as I thought. Can't Schedule a Meeting

This article https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/teams-exploratory suggests that when you assign the licence to a Guest user, they should be able to schedule a meeting. However, this hasn...
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    Richard_Panton
    Aug 07, 2020

    Eduardo_Teixeira 

     

    Yes - found 2 ways of getting this to work.

     

    First way - I created a user within my organization giving them an email address from my domain. When it came to assigning licences, i assigned them a Teams Exploratory licence and everything worked well.

     

    Second way I just discovered and is probably better than the first.

    Once you have a Guest User that has already created an account in your Azure Directory, you can go to your Azure Admin Centre (https://aad.portal.azure.com/), search for that user and then under Licence, assign the Teams Exploratory Licence. This works well as you don't have to give them an email address from your entity.

     

    Ensure that in AAD when looking at the user, under the Source column, it should say External Azure Active Directory and not "Invited user". Invited User means they haven't completed the account setup steps.  

     

    You may get an error that the user doesn't have a Usage Location, you'll have to edit that under the User Settings as well.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Lastly, you can create a Guest User from within AAD and assign the Teams Exploratory licence from there. So instead of doing it from within regular Microsoft 365 Admin Centre, do it from AAD Portal. 

     

    I hope that helps.

     

     

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