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A best practice or process in which a member can request to add a guest to a team.
Hello there. Does anyone knows of a way or method to streamline the process of inviting a guest user to team by a team or channel member? In our environment only team owners are the only who can ad...
There two very helpful pages regarding this:
- Manage guest access with Azure AD guest access review: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/governance/manage-guest-access-with-access-reviews
- Authorize guest access in Microsoft Teams: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/teams-dependencies
- Via Azure AD you can define who can invite and who cannot (admins-only, members, and even guests): https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/teams-dependencies#control-guest-access-in-azure-active-directory
Mostly, to control the flow of invitations it makes sense to have not only a technical but also an organisational process in place. If everybody could invite this might pose a security risk because someone might invite people to Teams/O365 group without agreement of the team owner or the company.
We usually only allow team owners to invite guests. In most cases a team is used for project collaboration and a project is owned by the project manager so he/she decides who should join and other members should ask the project manager (team owner) for approval first.