Aug 05 2019 02:42 AM
As a Teams admin, I'd like to allow my team owners to invite external guests to their teams provided they are authorized. I learned that Teams doesn't support guest inviter role yet. Is there any mechanism one can authorize team owners selectively to invite their guests rather than opening the floodgates to all team members?
Aug 05 2019 05:37 AM
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Aug 05 2019 10:49 AM
@Christopher HoardThanks. That helps a bit, but the only problem is management nightmare. We're anticipating around 20K additional users on-boarding the Teams platform in the next few months and this approach doesn't scale. I heard of another solution through guest inviter role, but unfortunately Teams doesn't support this. Is there any roadmap for the same?
Aug 05 2019 11:08 AM
Aug 05 2019 01:57 PM
@eynarain What currently is "not supported" is someone with the Guest Inviter role using Microsoft Teams to invite the guests. It errors out and Microsoft calls this a "UI Feature Gap."
However, that very same user can go to Outlook on the web and invite the same guest to the Office 365 Group associated with the Microsoft Teams team. Thus, the invited guest user can then participate in MS Teams channel conversations.
This flow is a little counter-intuitive, but does work. Shouldn't be too hard to communicate to those users in the Guest Inviter role (presumably there aren't too many of them, otherwise you'd turn on allowing Guest Invitations for all users).
Aug 05 2019 05:37 AM
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