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SharePoint Guests vs Azure AD Guests
Does this mean we can delete unneeded users from Azure AD and not lose their ability to access their existing links?
- When you share a SPO Site with an external user he should be added also as external user in your Azure AD. Basically Azure AD is the hub that centrally manages how users (external and no external) can access to Office 365 services. Behind the scenes SPO and EXO have their own AD implementation that is bidirectionally synchronized with Azure AD so if an account is added to Azure AD, is going to be propaggated to SPO and the other way around
- StephenRice
Microsoft
Hi Maxwell Shifman ,
Hopefully I can shed some light here :)
At the moment, when you share to an entirely new person (i.e. never been shared to before) from ODB and share via the "specific people" option, one of two things can happen. If the recipient is an O365 user, when they redeem the link, they will be added to your directory as a full guest user (note that there are some cases where this may not occur). If they are not an O365 user, they are only instantiated on that site collection (or OneDrive).
This will all change in a few months when we fully migrate over to Azure B2B as the backing guest account service for ODB/SPO (as announced/demo'd at Ignite). Once done, all new shares will result in guest accounts being created.
The biggest difference between guest account created/not created is how you apply management & policy to those users.
Hope that helps!
Stephen RiceOneDrive Program Manager II
StephenRice Just wondering about the "Azure B2B as the backing guest account service for ODB/SPO"? Are all tenants now using the new way of sharing?
