Add EXTERNAL Teams account details to a contact in the GAL
We collaborate a lot with another company who have their own tenant. When we want to message an “external” user in Teams we have not messaged before, we must first search and type in the full email address, then select "(External)" to message them. We also have these same users as contacts in our GAL for email. The problem we have is that when you start searching for the user, the GAL contact comes up first, and users think that this is the correct Teams user account so they select this instead of typing further to bring up the real external account. If they do make it as far as to type out the full email address, then two users show up, one from the GAL and one with "(external)" in it. This is not a great user experience. We'd like to know if there is a way in which we can import the external user to our GAL, or if we can populate the GAL contact with the Teams attributes of the external user. The end goal is to have a GAL contact which the user can click to message in Teams. Has anyone come across this before and has a solution?
Restrict access to a Form to include external users in our tenant?
Hello, I'm setting up an automation where a Form response triggers a Power Automate Flow that updates a non-critical value in Business Central records. It works well except that I want the form to be non-public but to still be usable for people that are from different tenants but added as guests or members in our Entra. I haven't found what kind of setup and changes I need to make for this to be possible, I feel like it's either people within my domain or public, nothing in between. Is there really no way to restrict access to exclude public and anonymous users but include users from externa tenants and invited in my domain ? This is the current Entra setup for the kind of user I want to be able to access the form, I have tried with both user type Guest and Member but no change. Thank you
Entra invitation manager for guests
A while ago there was a change that the SharePoint invitation manager has been converted to the Entra invitation manager. This is a good thing because every guest can use the OTP for logging in. Only I see this behaviour: When a guest has been added to a group or a team. The guest can sign in with OTP to the team. Also there is a guest account created. When I share a folder or a document the guest can sign in with the OTP to the folder or document. But there is no guest account in M365 for this user. So you don't have an overview of the guest accounts in your tennant where a document has been shared with. With Powershell you can edit the entra invitation manager a bit: Set-SPOTenant -EnableAzureADB2BIntegration $true After completing this command also the users when you share something will be addeAuthenticationd as a guest. Is it default that guests are not vissible when you share a folder or document with them? Is this the right approuch to get a view of those accounts? Maurits Knoppert
How to add and grant access to external users for an M365 mailbox
Hello, what is the workaround to allow external users to share a mailbox? External users who are not within our domain should be able to send and receive emails using an address like (email address removed for privacy reasons). I have tried setting up both Shared and Group mailboxes, but it’s not possible to add external members, even after creating and inviting the external user in Entra and granting them access as a Guest or Member. These external users need to be able to log in to this mailbox to send and receive emails. As of now, it seems impossible to add or delegate external members. We do not require Teams or any other apps; we only need email/Outlook services. I have attempted multiple configurations, but nothing seems to work.Sharing Excel sheet via embed into public web page without login
I am having difficulty sharing an Excel file to a public web page using the embed iFrame function. It embeds fine for me and I can view the web page, however a public user (or me using an incognito browser) is getting prompted to login to office 365. I need to display the data without login. I have Checked that sharing policies in Sharepoint admin centre are set to most permissive (both sharepoint and onedrive are set to "anyone" "Users can share files and folders using links that don't require sign-in." The Excel file is set (under manage access/share) "to anyone with link can view" What am I missing? Thanks for your help
Ms Form - "Anyone can respond" Not working anymore
Hello, I have a Microsoft form set to "Anyone can respond" that I shared with external members of my organization, and the link was perfectly functional until now for anyone having the link. Since the end of the week 07/24/19, this form is no longer accessible without logging in (when testing with the link in private browsing, I am redirected to the login page) and it is also not accessible while loged to a Microsoft account external to my organization. Has anyone else encountered this problem or is it a residual impact of the global bug related to the latest Microsoft update? Do you know how to report this bug if necessary? Thanks in advance.Trying to duplicate formatted online Excel when duplicating Form
Hi, I haven't been able to find anything on the forum quite fitting my situation yet. I am setting up survey forms for 100+ faculty members across our educational programs for our students to evaluate them. Students will get the URLs to the surveys of the faculty in their program; they sometimes interact with faculty from other programs or teachers that aren't in our org, so it's important that they are told who specifically they should evaluate. Once the students evaluate the faculty, administration then wants to send the anonymous results to the faculty members in a nice, compiled report. I currently have a master survey that I will be duplicating from. I submitted a trial response, and then set up a "report" page on the Excel Online workbook the form generated. It works fine, and saves between openings. However, when duplicating the survey form, I've realized that I cannot access the Excel Online spreadsheet until a response is received in the duplicated form. I submitted a trial response in a duplicated form and discovered that the Excel Online workbook does not duplicate along with the form (basically, I only had the responses, and no report page). Is there a way I can: - duplicate the Excel Online workbook along with a Form, or - view the Excel Online workbook created by the Form before submitting a response, or - easily duplicate the Report page without having to manually adjust cell references to that workbook, or - An easier way to go about this project that I'm just missing? Thank you!Recommendation - Microsoft 365 authorisation concepts - Part 1
[New Blog Post] *PART 1!* I have put a new article online. This article is divided into two parts. In these two parts, you will learn the most important things about #AdministrativeUnits in #EntraID. What needs to be considered when creating an authorization concept. https://www.msb365.blog/?p=5495 #MVPsummit #M365 #Microsoft365 #CommunityRocks
