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Introducing guest access for Office 365 Groups!
I appreciate your careful approach and I agree with you.
Nevertheless, as pointed out by VasilMichev, I think that, for example, restricting guests to be visitors and not full members, will be a common requirement.
Hence I hope that with the introduction of Group team sites MS will eliminate any "specialness" from Group access, rendering it completely "standard" as in SharePoint.
While standardization is good, Office 365 Groups are a rather special construct where a central idea is that all members of a group - including guest users - share a common level of access to group resources. Now this isn't strictly true for guest users because they don't have direct access to the group mailbox, but it holds valid for the SharePoint resources. Unlike permissions that are granted to an individual user who has a specific and recognizable identity, you'd have to be able to go to a lower level and support different permissions within members who hold a common identity - and that is where the problem lies.
- Yes, either you are on the "team" or you are not. Nothing slows things down across collaboration than finding out a team member did not have access or didn't see something that was shared. If you need sub levels of guest then I would use another construct and lets keep groups for highly effective teams.
