Acc-Creation

Question

Hi All,

I want to create a guest account. I have logged in to the Exchange Online Admin Center and created a mail contact. However, I am not seeing this mail contact in Azure AD. Will mail contacts not show up in Azure AD? If i need to create a guest account in Azure AD should i use invite external user in EntraID? The guest account will be used for B2B. I want to invite external user in Azure EntraID, Please help me with PowerShell syntax to create guest users with below fields in EntraID, is the below syntax correct?

Answer 1

Hi Rising Flight,

Please note that New-MsolUser is used for creating a new user in Azure AD, not for inviting a guest user. You should use New-AzureADMSInvitation

A Sample:

|Invite the user:

$inv = New-AzureADMSInvitation -InvitedUserEmailAddress "someone@domain.com" -InvitedUserDisplayName "FN LN" -SendInvitationMessage $true -InviteRedirectUrl <URL> -InvitedUserType "Guest"

|Use this command to add the invited user to a group:

Add-AzureADGroupMember -ObjectId <GroupObjectId> -RefObjectId $inv.InvitedUser.Id

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Answer 2

Hi @Rising Flight

Thanks for reaching out.

About mail contacts, they are not the same as guest users in Entra ID. Mail contacts are used to represent external email addresses in Exchange Online, but they are not user accounts in Entra ID.

If you want to invite an external user to collaborate with your organization using their own work, school, or social account, you should use the "Invite external user" option in the Azure portal or use the "New-AzureADMSInvitation" PowerShell cmdlet as described above.

Reference - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/azuread/new-azureadmsinvitation?view=azureadps-2.0

Hope this will help.

Thanks,

Shweta

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