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MicrosoftProvisioning a team with hundreds of guest users
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
MicrosoftI 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.
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- JernejP
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?
I was looking into this further last week and the Microsoft documentation has been updated. It now states that the 1:5 limit only applies for Azure AD P1/2 features. If your guest users are not using any of these features such as conditional access and MFA then there is no limit. If they are using these features then the 1:5 limit exists where an Azure P1 license means you can use any Azure P1 features at a 1:5 ratio, same with P2 features.
Sorry about the confusion, the only constant in Microsoft 365 is change.
Hi JernejP
Yes, to cover you for the amount of Guest users working off of the 1 licensed user to 5 Guest users principle.And then utilise the methods suggested by Andrew Hodges in terms of not having to do it manually.
Thanks
Henry