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Salvatore Biscari
Silver Contributor
Jan 21, 2017

Manual creation of external users

As we know, "Allow sharing only with the external users that already exist in your organization's directory" is the default for Groups. Given that a customer of mine doesn't want to change such defa...
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  • jcgonzalezmartin's avatar
    jcgonzalezmartin
    Jan 23, 2017
    Ey Salvatore,
    Sorry, I missunderstood your question :-(...you are right, it's not possible to manually add users from other Office 365 tenant in Azure AD. You need to use the B2B approach
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Salvatore Biscari
Silver Contributor

Thanks Juan.

Unfortunately, when they add users manually (using Azure AD Portal) it appears that while they can add directly individual MS accounts, they are instead forced to use the B2B procedure (i.e. the CSV) even to add a single O365 (external) account.

In other words, they have not found a way in the AAD portal to add manually just one (f.e.) O365 external account without having to create a CSV for the B2B procedure.

Can you confirm?

 
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jcgonzalezmartin
MVP
Jan 22, 2017
Hello Salvatore,
That sounds very strange...I have just added a hotmail.com user in the Azure AD portal with no problems using the manual approach
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    Salvatore Biscari
    Silver Contributor
    Jan 23, 2017

    Hi Juan. The problem is not with hotmail.com (and similar MSA) users, the problem is with O365 accounts.

    How do I manually add to AAD an O365 account (from another tenant) as external user?

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