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Copper Contributor

Sep 23, 2019

Guest account not created with External User and verification code

One of my users wants to set an alert for an external user. To receive the alert the external user must be listed as a guest user in our Office 365 portal and therefore they need to login the first t...

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Rudy Mens

Copper Contributor

Sep 23, 2019

Ronaldvdz

Yes, anonymous access is allowed, but they will have to open the link with the email account that is given. In this case, I created a link for a specific user.

StephenRice

Microsoft

Sep 30, 2019

Hi Rudy Mens,

If you send an Anyone link, then the recipient will never need to sign-in (and thus no account will be created).

If you send a specific people link, that is also the case today (there are some cases when the recipient is using O365 and they do get an account in your directory). If you enable the new preview though, you'll find that all guests do get an account created. Hope that helps!

Stephen Rice

Senior Program Manager, OneDrive

Rudy Mens
Copper Contributor
Sep 30, 2019
StephenRice
In this, we are indeed creating a specific link for the users. I took a quick look at the AzureAD B2B preview and it looks like what we want/need. I will dive into further this week. Thanks!