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Anahita Bahrami's avatar
Anahita Bahrami
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Sep 27, 2016

Guest access in Office 365 Groups

Hi everyone,   Guest access in Office 365 Groups helps you and your team to collaborate with people outside your organization by granting them access to group conversations, files, calendar invit...
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VasilMichev's avatar
VasilMichev
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Sep 27, 2016

Are there any plans to allows us control over the permissions Guests are given? Some organizations will not be happy with Edit access and would much prefer for Guests to be Visitiors instead.

 

On a similar note, when are you guys going to remove "Everyone except external users" from the Members group for Public Groups? We've already demonstrated how easy it is for a person to wreak havoc in organizations by simply browsing open groups and deleting files.

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    Sahil Arora
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    Sep 28, 2016

    Thanks Vasil for the feedback! Currently the controls that tenant admin have is to a) Block the guest access b) To allow Group owners to add guests in the group. Please find the details here.

     

    Currently we dont have a control where we give guests visitor like access but we take this a feedback and have this as a datapoint in our planning. 

  • Anahita Bahrami's avatar
    Anahita Bahrami
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    Sep 28, 2016

    Hi Vasil,

     

    Thank you for your feedback. I'll forward your comments and question to the team.

     

    The best place to leave your feedback is at the bottom of the help topic though (where is says: Was this information helpful?). The feedback/comments then get rolled up and reviewed on a regular basis to improve the app and services.

     

    Thank you,

    Anahita

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