Configuring guest access from the Azure AD portal
Earlier in this chapter, we showed you how to configure the external-collaboration settings for guest user access from within the Azure portal. We also showed you how to invite a guest user directly from Microsoft Teams. Creating a guest user from Teams will also create a guest user object directly within Azure AD. However, it is also possible to invite users directly from the Azure portal. This provides tenant-, directory-, and application-level control of the guest experience as opposed to just at the Microsoft Teams level. In this section, we will show you how to invite guest users from the Azure portal by going through the following steps:
- Log in to the Azure portal at https://portal.azure.com and navigate to Azure AD | Manage | Users. You will see the list of Azure AD users, as shown in Figure 4.40:
- Select the + New guest user option. The Invite user option will automatically be chosen...