Forum Discussion
Manual creation of external users
- 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
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?
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
Well this is changing for B2B.
The CSV option is being replaced with an API which is part of the Office Graph.
https://graph.microsoft.io/en-us/docs/api-reference/beta/resources/invitation
It was announced at Ignite and still in beta but good to know it is there for testing and a way forward with B2B.
https://channel9.msdn.com/events/Ignite/2016/BRK3108
Good to know.
Nevertheless, I would rather like to have a UI for manually creating O365 external users, one by one, like it is already possible (and mandatory) to do today for MSA external users.
This would be a boon for small organizations that need to create only a handful of external users and don't even know what a CSV is (let alone an API...).
I coded up a quick UI in my developer-oriented playground app. It does add the users in AAD, but I have to admit that the sharing experience is sub-optimal. Seems the external user can only see site & files. Can't see conversations or calendar. Am I doing it wrong?
