Configuring guest users and permissions for Microsoft Teams

With Microsoft Teams, your core users are the people within your organization who have a licensed Microsoft 365 account. However, it is also possible to grant access to people who are not members of your organization and do not have access to your Microsoft 365 tenant with a school or work account. Typical examples of this are partner organizations, suppliers, vendors, and customers.

To provide such access to Teams, we need to set up guest user access. An invited guest user can be provided with access to your Microsoft Teams environment and participate in chats, access documents in channels, and even use the applications that you have made available within Teams.

In order for a guest to be granted access, they must meet the following criteria:

• Have an Azure AD account from their own Microsoft 365 tenant
• Have a consumer email account such as Outlook.com or Gmail.com

The level of access granted to guest...