Feb 01 2017
01:29 PM
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04:49 PM
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Feb 01 2017
01:29 PM
- last edited on
Jan 14 2022
04:49 PM
by
TechCommunityAP
Great updates and improvements in Azure B2B announced today: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/enterprisemobility/2017/02/01/azure-ad-b2b-new-updates-make-cros... cc @Salvatore Biscari @Vasil Michev
Feb 02 2017 05:50 AM - edited Feb 02 2017 06:38 AM
Feb 02 2017 05:50 AM - edited Feb 02 2017 06:38 AM
Thanks Juan.
From the blog article, about the new features: "Ability to invite a user with any email address to collaborate. Whether a user has an Office365 or on-premises Exchange email address, an outlook.com email address, or any social email address, he/she can now seamlessly access the invited organization with inline, lightweight creation of an Azure AD or Microsoft Account."
Unfortunately I have been unable to correctly add an outlook.com user.
In the portal the user appears to be added and the invite appears to be sent, but the recipient never received the invite.
Any ideas?
EDIT
Never mind: the user found the invite in the spam folder...
So it appears it worked!
Feb 02 2017 06:49 AM
We are now able to share a folder with that external user (having an outlook.com account) also from a Group having the default setting of "ExistingExternalUserSharingOnly".
Awesome!
This is a very welcome update indeed!
Feb 02 2017 06:51 AM
Glad you and your customer are happy!
Feb 02 2017 07:03 AM
Thanks!
And many other users too, I guess, will be happy for this.
Feb 02 2017 01:25 PM
Feb 02 2017 02:20 PM
Not sure what you mean with "Custom Invitation" ?
You add the user (for now I have tried only with some MS accounts, which was what I needed), you specify some text to include in the invitation and the invite is automatically sent.
When the invite is redeemed by the recipient, the user is added to AAD.
In my case this was exactly what the doctor ordered, because my customer didn't want to change the default sharing for Groups and so the users with whom they wanted to share some Group folders had to be necessarily already in AAD.
Feb 03 2017 05:05 AM
Dean,
I don't know about B2B, but the invitation API (in beta) allows for customizing the experience (the message and directing to a specific URL when complete).
Im working on a blog post about it.
Feb 03 2017 06:26 AM
In the announcement from MS, they mentioned the ability to specify a custom invitation email to send. see step 3 on https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/active-directory-b2b-what-is-azure-ad-b2b.
That is what I was referencing.
Feb 03 2017 07:52 AM
Didn't notice it...
I have not tried that feature...
Feb 03 2017 02:26 PM
Correct - you can use the B2B invitation API to create custom invitations. We are updating the documentation and they will include these instructions soon.
@paulschaeflein wrote:
Dean,
I don't know about B2B, but the invitation API (in beta) allows for customizing the experience (the message and directing to a specific URL when complete).
Im working on a blog post about it.
Feb 03 2017 02:29 PM
Feb 03 2017 07:29 PM
The blog post at https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/enterprisemobility/2017/02/01/azure-ad-b2b-new-updates-make-cros... was posted 2 days ago and clearly states that there is new documenation, but I can't find anything that describes how to create a custom invitation? what is going on?
Feb 03 2017 07:45 PM
Feb 04 2017 05:02 AM
Thanks for the quick reply and clarification that the updated docs don't actually exist. In the future, I would like to suggest that announcements be delayed until the updated docs are ready. I wasted some time looking for them (:.
Feb 04 2017 06:49 AM - edited Feb 04 2017 06:50 AM
Feb 04 2017 07:40 AM
Thanks for the clarification. I'm seing some updated pages that I had not previously noticed.
Would you happen to know why various web sites get added to my Access Panel applications? I know how to manually add apps, but I'm seeing apps/web site, such as FastTrack and the MS Partner Portal, get added without any action on my part.
Feb 04 2017 08:31 AM
Feb 09 2017 11:09 AM
Paul - we're making a ton of updates to our documentation. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/active-directory-b2b-what-is-azure-ad-b2b
API and customization: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/active-directory-b2b-api
Code samples: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/active-directory-b2b-code-samples
I'd love for you to look at it and give us comments. As you write your blog post, if there's something you thought you'd see in the docs but don't, or if you have questions - reach out to me! :)
Thanks for doing this! Also, do send me your blog link, would love to read and happy to tweet about it :)