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Microsoft

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...

MVP

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.

Sahil Arora

Iron Contributor

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.