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Best practice to add guest to AAD?
I could give a guest access to SPO directly from the site's permissions settings, and I could give a guest access to Teams directly from the Teams interface (at least in a channel, if not in chat). I...
- Yeah, working on Desktop now, you used to not be able to pick, not sure when it got added, but it's there now :).
Anyway, so bottom line here, you should be able to chose, having a guest is not required. Test with my tenant if you wish, but if it works, and you can't do that with someone you're trying to reach and you don't get the "search externally for" and it doesn't connect, then they must not have their end configured, but inviting them or adding them as a guest to your tenant allows them to tenant switch to chat, which isn't the same as federation.
Anyway, let us know if you have other questions or need help with more testing.
Yes! What you are seeing is that teams found your guest account when searching for a person in chat! It can be confusing because this will start a chat within your tenant ( the person will see this when it’s switched to your tenant! Keep typing and search externally
Well if they add people ahead of time and it has a match then they won’t get the option to chat externally. It’s one of the big disconnects between federation and having a local account that can get tricky to understand