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Provisioning a team with hundreds of guest users
- Jul 06, 2020
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
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
- JernejPJul 06, 2020
Microsoft
I 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?
- Andrew HodgesJul 06, 2020Bronze Contributor
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
- JernejPJul 06, 2020
Microsoft
Andrew Hodges & henryarphillips365
We would split this into multiple teams (so for example 30 teams), and all 13.000 users would be divided between them, so the 10k limit would not be reached. So the option would be to get more licenses and do Guest AD access?