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Copper Contributor

Mar 24, 2021

MS Team Chat with Guest User

Hello Everybody, I am facing an issue with opening a chat with Guest users in the MS team. I am using deep link https://teams.microsoft.com/l/chat/0/0?users=email when I use the above li...

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Matti_Paukkonen

MVP

Mar 24, 2021

Hi sujeetnishad,

I'm afraid you cannot deeplink the chat to a guest user.

Referring to documentation supported user ID is AAD UserPrincipalName, but guest AAD UPN is not working.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/platform/concepts/build-and-test/deep-links#deep-linking-to-a-chat?WT.mc_id=M365-MVP-5003860

Is your requirement to open a chat exactly to a guest user in your tenant?

sujeetnishad
Copper Contributor
Mar 24, 2021
Yes, we need to open the guest user chat on click for which we are using the deep link!
- Steve Goodman
  Former Employee
  May 11, 2023
  This is still a problem in 2023
sujeetnishad
Copper Contributor
Mar 24, 2021
Yes, you are right!