Restricting Guest Access?

[Mike Boehm]

Howdy,

We currently have Guest Access turned off in our tenant but have had a few requests for it so we need to know how much we can restrict guest access while still having it available.  Our Security person came up with a plan if we can do it so if anyone can answer some questions, I'd appreciate it.

1. Can we restrict guest IDs to be created or approved by admins in the IT area?
2. Can we restrict guest access to a specific team or specific channels within a team?
3. Can we have guest access on both regular channels and private channels?

Thanks.

[#2]

@Mike Boehm 

1. Yes

2. Sort of - you can enable / disable guests for a specific Team (but not a specific channel - although you could use a private channel in a Team for 'internal only' and the other channels for 'internal and guests')

3. Yes

[#3]

see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/guest-access-powershell

[#4]

@Rob EllisWell, that link looks like I can turn guest access on very easily.  I was going through this Checklist which has tons of steps to go through.  Are they doing the same thing or are all the checklist steps needed and then powershell just does the last part?

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/guest-access-checklist