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Brass Contributor

Sep 13, 2016

External User Account Creation

We currently use SharePoint online for our company intranet site and have recently created a new members site. The members site is a new site collection for external members (approx. 200). Can anybod...

Bronze Contributor

Sep 13, 2016

You can use ADD-SPOUSER to provision all 200 users to access your site after tagging them as guests in Azure AD as @Juan said.

Paul Mitchell
Brass Contributor
Sep 13, 2016
Thank you for your replies.
Are you suggesting that I add users with business email addresses via B2B and users with consumer emails via an alternative method? Can you explain the process to add the consumer e-mails to Azure AD? I know how to add a users, but I then have 4 choices,
New user in organisation
User with existing Microsoft account
User in another Microsoft Azure AD directory
Users in partner companies

Any advice would be much appreciated.
- SanthoshB1
  Bronze Contributor
  Sep 14, 2016
  You need to pick Users in partner companies. When you add users with business email addresses via B2B they will receive an invite to access this site. You can also use ADD-SPOUSER cmd to provision users to site even if they have not accepted the access invite. You can use this cmd after adding users to Azure AD.
  - Paul Mitchell
    Brass Contributor
    Sep 14, 2016
    I don’t have a preference to use B2B, I am looking for the most efficient method to invite 200 external users to my SharePoint online site. I have only 2 additional requirements,
    The external user can reset their password
    The external user is not required to enter lots of personal date to create the account
    If I use B2B to provision users with a commercial email I am still unsure how to provision external users with personal emails?

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