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Copper Contributor

Dec 29, 2018

O365 external sharing

Dear all, A customer with M365 E3 license with SPO and EXO deployed is looking for a secure solution to collaborate between internal business units and external customers (work on documents and ...

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Sylvain Chopard

Copper Contributor

Dec 29, 2018

Thanks Adam.

I'm not yet that familiar with Teams and given the customer is not using it to this point, it would require a fair amount of training before being used effectively. It would however be an area to explore with customer to benefit from its integrated communication capabilities (chat, voice, video).

For this specific case I feel that collaboration is going to be more project focused so SPO should do fine.

I'm also not quite sure yet as to how granular security can be set in Teams vs Sharepoint site/apps/files

For testing purposes I did create a Team site but I can't add a guest account directly from within Teams even after having turned on guest access in O365 Teams Admin center (org wide settings). I was able to add the guest user from the admin center but the user is still not showing as a member in Teams site. Anything I miss ?

adam deltinger

MVP

Dec 30, 2018

How/where did you add the user?
Guests should be enabled both for teams and for groups
Groups: admin portal - services and addins - groups
Teams - teams and Skype admin portal - guests

After enabling this, it can take some time to propagate!
Also if you added a member already through any other service than teams like directly to the office 365 group and not from teams, it can take some time as well to show in teams

sylvain_chopard
Copper Contributor
Jan 23, 2019
Hi Adam,

I've just delivered my presentation related to this business case to Microsoft to land a job as PFE.
WelI...I should have taken your advice and put more focus on Teams. While I did cover Teams high level and listed some of its benefits (its free, easy to use and setup, includes a set of linked services, allows for real-time, fast paced collaboration internally and externally etc) and that it could complement SPO, I did mention some drawbacks (training, desktop client, SPO already in use, more advanced security policies in SPO...) which I probably shouldn't have.
I didn't realize how much of a push MS is giving behind Teams to beat Slack in this segment.
It looks like the interviewers (tech delivery leads) were expecting a sales pitch for Teams more than anything else. Still unsure as to how this relates to a PFE role.

I will have an answer next week but I am not too optimistic about the outcome.
- adam deltinger
  MVP
  Jan 23, 2019
  I have my fingers crossed!