Creating a guest user

In this section, we will learn how to create a guest user. Follow these steps: 

1. To get started, you will need to click on the + New guest user button. You will see a screen that's quite different from the one for creating an Azure Active Directory tenant:

Figure 4.6 - Creating a new guest user

As you can see, now, you only have two fields to provide – an email address, where an invitation will be sent, and the optional message to a user. Here is what an invitation will look like:

Figure 4.7 - Invitation email for Azure AD

2. When you click on the Get Started button, you will be asked to sign into your Microsoft Account (or an external Azure AD).

With a guest user, you can send an invitation to any email address provider (such as Gmail), but still, you will have to use a limited set of identity providers to sign into the directory.