Guest Access in Microsoft Teams

Guest Access in Microsoft Teams is now available as part of Office 365 Enterprise, Office 365 for Education, and Office 365 Business Premium suite licensing. You can now provide access to external people to teams, documents in channels, resources and chats while still maintaining complete control over your own corporate data.

By default, Microsoft Teams Guest Access is turned off in a tenant-level setting. To turn it on, you may follow these steps:

1. Sign in to Office 365, click Admin tile on the Office 365 app launcher or login directly to Admin Center portal using this link: https://portal.office.com/adminportal/home

2. Select Settings on the Office 365 Admin center, then click Services & add-ins.

3. Click Microsoft Teams.

4. Select Guest on the Select the user/license type you want to configure. Toggle to On the Turn Microsoft Teams on or off for your entire organization option.

5. Click Save.

 

To add and manage Guest Users as a team owner in Microsoft Teams, here’s the guide:

1. On Teams page, under General, click Add more people.

2. Type in Guest email address, it can be a work, personal or school account. Click Add.

3. Guest will receive a welcome email from the team owner, inviting them to join the team.

4. After accepting invitation, guest can now access Teams and participate in teams and channels, share files, and start chat conversation.

Microsoft Teams is the best solution for persistent chat among group/team members and is built upon Office 365 Groups which is a service that provides cross-application membership for a set of shared teams assets for effective and secured team collaboration.