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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.
Just to make clear of my previous post! Users can add guests if it’s setup this way via teams, sharepoint! This happens automatically! However they cannot pre add into AAd
I really wish out of the box it would disable the guest access for everyone. This was flagged by our security team because of the nature of business my company does. I think it should be turned off, but I am most likely in the minority in this one.
