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SimranJaggi
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May 07, 2019

Adding external users (hotmail , gmail ) users to teams convesation

Hello everyone   I know that this topic has been quite popular in this space but i realy wanted to discuss some points which has been quite confusing for me:   1. Can we invite gmail , hotmail gu...
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ripsy85
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May 24, 2019

AndrewWarland thanks for that. I have enabled the external sharing and guest access but if I invite a Gmail user, YES he will get the notification and can join the teams group but then when he will try to login it will ask for a Microsoft account work,school or personal which I obviously don't have. 

 

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    AndrewWarland
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    Jun 03, 2020

    ripsy85 thanks. I found that I could create a meeting and invite more or less anyone (via any email address) to a meeting. They didn't become a member of any group, it was a one-off meeting that they accessed via the Teams web client. 

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    Unnie
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    May 24, 2019

    ripsy85If you do not have Google set up as federated identity provider to your tenant, then users cannot login directly with their gmail account. The user will need to create a Microsoft account with the invited gmail.com account and use that for logging in to teams.

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      gdstuart
      Copper Contributor
      May 13, 2020

      Unnie What is an IDP please?

       

      I'm trying to add my wife's gmail.com account to test Chat with an external user but when I invite her it says "We didn't find any matches."

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        visakhcp
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        Feb 01, 2021

        gdstuart To add a guest user: Open O365 Admin Center then Open Azure AD and add a guest user in Azure AD, after it add a guest user in Teams Admin center at the Teams tab

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      ripsy85
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      May 27, 2019

      Unnie Thanks! That makes sense now. ;-)

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    Rnishat0786
    Iron Contributor
    May 24, 2019

    ripsy85 

     

    AFAIK they need to have an MS live/personal account to access teams.. if they don't have one they can create one using the same external mail on which the invite is shared..

     

    Thanks

     

    Robin Nishad

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