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In SharePoint Online, you can enable Guest access at tenant level and then control it at each site collection level whether you want that to be enabled/disabled in individual site collections. Wouldn’t that be nice to be able to control guest access in teams in a similar way as it’s done in SharePoint – at Individual team level?
In combination with “SharePoint and OneDrive integration with Azure AD B2B”, google federation makes external sharing of SharePoint Online and OneDrive content/sites a piece of cake.
Extranet sites or Sites having access to external users in SharePoint have been in use for long, across various organizations. It provides great collaboration when working with multiple vendors/partners. There are various articles about external sharing capabilities of SharePoint Online. In this article I am just going to focus on migration scenarios only. Extranet Sites in SharePoint On-Premise There are various ways to implement external access in on-premise SharePoint farms like External Users created in Active Directory in a separate OU and/or account names starting something like ext_ or gst_ to easily identify external/guest users External Users in a separate trusted […]
Microsoft recently announced to start rolling out a much awaited feature in Microsoft Teams – Support for consumer email account as Guests or External Users. As per Microsoft official message “Users will have the ability to add anyone with a business or consumer email account (such as Outlook.com) as a guest, enabling them to participate in Teams with full access to team chats, meetings and files. Guests with email accounts such as Gmail.com or others that do not yet have a Microsoft account associated to their email will be directed to create a Microsoft account for free, as this is required […]