01-12-2018 07:07 AM - edited 01-12-2018 07:08 AM
In MS Teams, how do I communicate with a Skype for Business user not in my directory? Someone in another company? In Skype for Business, we just input their email address. Doing that in Teams under people, doesn't seem to ever result in anyone. I've already turned on globally the guest access feature of Teams.
01-12-2018 07:24 AM
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01-12-2018 10:26 AM
01-12-2018 10:43 AM
08-02-2018 12:33 PM
08-02-2018 12:33 PM
Is this fixed yet? We can't seem to invite external users
08-02-2018 01:06 PM
Are you talking about external SfB users or just external users for Teams? You can invite external users in Teams. But you have to enable it in a few places. First you need to enable external users support in Teams (Office/Microsoft 365 admin center > Settings > Services & add-ins > Microsoft Teams: Settings by user/license type - change to Guest and change it to On and Save). This will enable new Teams (old one won't be affected) to be able to invite existing external users. If you want to invite completely new external users, you can first add them manually in Azure admin center or you can enable Office/Microsoft 365 admin center > Settings > Security & privacy > Let users add new guests to the organization. Also note, that after changing these settings, you might need to wait 1-24 hours for them to take effect (yeah, that's how modern cloud services operate..).
08-02-2018 01:07 PM
Btw, those external users must have a Microsoft ID (could be personal one).
08-02-2018 01:32 PM
Thank you. We are guest enabled already.
Currently through SFB, we communicate outside of our org with other SFB Users.
If we go to Teams soonish, we'd want to be able to still communicate with those SFB external users. Is that working in Teams yet?
08-02-2018 01:49 PM
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08-02-2018 02:24 PM
How did you do it? Did you just type his SfB id on the TO: filed of the chat window?
I'm trying this and I get "we could't find this person. Try another e-mail address.
08-02-2018 02:27 PM
08-02-2018 02:34 PM
Thanks, I'll get back to you tomorrow.
08-31-2018 09:16 AM
Any update on this?? I've got external federation enabled.. Have dozens of external contacts in S4B, however cannot find them in Teams. This is very cumbersome and is in no way a Skype replacement right now. I'm even on the Developer preview!!
09-12-2018 12:51 AM
Hi, any update on this ?
Seems we are still not yet able to add external users (through Skype federation) in the chat of Teams
10-02-2018 12:06 PM
You can enable external communications, which in turn will allow you to chat with people on external Skype for Business and Teams. However, it's not always that simple to keep track off and some people don't get it to work at all.
For now, my tests have been fine.
10-18-2018 03:20 AM
Was there any update to this at Ignite? OR is it the case that MSFT is trying to push everyone onto Teams ASAP and therefore there is no need for this functionality? It seems the MSFT answer is to invite the external user to a Team, and then do chat 1:1 or in a channel in Teams?