Configuring guest access
Guest access in Microsoft Teams allows you to add individuals from outside your organization as guests. This provides them with almost the same capabilities as native team members, enabling collaboration through chats, calls, meetings, and document sharing. This differs from external access in that guests are part of your organization’s directory and have broader access to the resources within teams of which they’re members, such as associated SharePoint sites.
Getting ready
In order to follow the steps in this recipe, you must be either a Global or Teams Administrator.
How to do it…
- Log in to the Teams admin center at https://admin.teams.microsoft.com and navigate to Users | Guest access, as shown in Figure 9.15:
Figure 9.15 – Teams Guest access
- Figure 9.16 shows the options for allowing guest access in Microsoft Teams, with the Service default setting set to On:
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