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Guest account not created with External User and verification code
One of my users wants to set an alert for an external user. To receive the alert the external user must be listed as a guest user in our Office 365 portal and therefore they need to login the first t...
StephenRice
Microsoft
MicrosoftHi Rudy Mens,
If you send an Anyone link, then the recipient will never need to sign-in (and thus no account will be created).
If you send a specific people link, that is also the case today (there are some cases when the recipient is using O365 and they do get an account in your directory). If you enable the new preview though, you'll find that all guests do get an account created. Hope that helps!
Stephen Rice
Senior Program Manager, OneDrive
In this, we are indeed creating a specific link for the users. I took a quick look at the AzureAD B2B preview and it looks like what we want/need. I will dive into further this week. Thanks!