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MicrosoftProvisioning a team with hundreds of guest users
Hi,
I was wondering how would I go about provisioning a team that will have hundreds of guest users?
I looked at PowerShell and School Data Sync, but it's only possible to add members within the organization. Is there a way to add 13.000 guests (in an origination with about 250 employees), without having to add them individually? It's an EDU tenant.
Thanks
Hi JernejP - I am afraid that won't work on two fronts.
250 licenses is only going to cover you for 1250 Guest users as per the 1:5 ratio. Unless you have more licenses and that is just 250 licensed users for this one Team.
And at present you can only add 10000 users to a single Team.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/limits-specifications-teamsThanks
Henry
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We have used PowerShell, PnP and the Microsoft Graph API to do this in various projects in various ways.
If it is just one team with hundreds of users then use PowerShell to create the users as guest users in Azure AD then add them to the Team using the Microsoft Graph API. Bear in mind as soon as you add the users they get an invite to your AD and have to sign up and also there is a 5 to 1 ratio of external to internal users allowed for licensing purposes.
Andy Hodges | ThinkShare | www.thinkshare.uk
JernejPI inquired further and got the specifics: 250 full users and about 13.000 guest users that will need to be added. Is it still possible to do?
From a licensing point of view at the moment no. EDIT: You can purchase more.
Also there is currently a limit of 10,000 members per team.
From the perspective of adding them to AD a script would do it but a word of warning that you would need to provide quite a bit of support to those 13,000 users, from experience the sign up process if very convoluted and has many scenarios, quite a few users will not sign up and need help.
Andy Hodges | ThinkShare | www.thinkshare.uk
- Hi,
If the guest accounts are actual guest accounts within Azure AD, are you then able to select them? As that way they should essentially be alongside your actual internal Azure AD identities for selection.
I was thinking if you could then add them as Members to the group that backs the Team?
Thanks
Henry- JernejP
HenryPhillipsNimbitech - I tried adding them as guest users, but remembered something. It won't be just 100 users, it will be about 13.000 users in a team with about 250 full-time users. This wouldn't work then, would it?
Hi JernejP - I am afraid that won't work on two fronts.
250 licenses is only going to cover you for 1250 Guest users as per the 1:5 ratio. Unless you have more licenses and that is just 250 licensed users for this one Team.
And at present you can only add 10000 users to a single Team.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/limits-specifications-teamsThanks
Henry
