TEAMS new Guests need invitation from AzureAD

Question

Hi Everyone,

What has changed in External Sharing / Guests

We have several TEAMS Sitees with their channels that Owners we're able to add additionnal Guests. Guests would get their invitation to the TEAMS Site / Channel

Within the last few weeks the ability to add External Guests was removed from Owners.

The only way we are now able to add Guests is if an AzureAD Admin creates the External user using AzureAD Admin Portal (Entra).

This is annoying for the users.

Anybody knows why this changed and how to correct the issue ?

NOTE: I checked with a few customers TENANT and they all behave the same way now.

Answer 1

Hi @
Marc Hebert @ K2B

Are you unable to invite guest users into teams?

Please follow these steps to ensure guest users can be invited into teams:

Step1: Check the B2B external collaboration settings to ensure that sharing with guests isn't blocked.

To set external collaboration settings

1.Log in to Azure Active Directory at https://aad.portal.azure.com.

2.In the left navigation pane, expand External identities.

3.Select External collaboration settings.

4.Ensure that either Member users and users assigned to specific admin roles can invite guest users including guests with member permissions or Anyone in the organization can invite guest users including guests and non-admins is selected.

5.If you made changes, select Save.

Step2: Check to ensure that guest access is enabled in Teams and make any adjustment to the guest settings based on your business needs. Keep in mind that these settings affect all teams.

To set Teams guest access settings

1.Log in to the Microsoft 365 admin center.

2.In the left navigation pane, select Show all.

3.Under Admin centers, select Teams.

4.In the Teams admin center, in the left navigation pane select Users > Guest access.

5. Ensure that Guest access is set to On.6. Make any desired changes to the additional guest settings, and then select Save.

Step3: Teams uses Microsoft 365 Groups for team membership. The Microsoft 365 Groups guest settings must be turned on in order for guest access in Teams to work.

To set Microsoft 365 Groups guest settings

1.In the Microsoft 365 admin center, in the left navigation pane, expand Settings.

2.Select Org settings.

3.In the list, select Microsoft 365 Groups.

4.Ensure that the Let group owners add people outside your organization to Microsoft 365 Groups as guests and Let guest group members access group content check boxes are both checked.

5. If you made changes, select Save changes.

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Answer 2

This is what I was looking for @Anonymous

https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117557

SharePoint: Site Sharing will use Azure B2B Invitation Manager for External Sharing

Roolout start: March 2023

The SharePoint Site sharing experience will now use Azure B2B Invitation Manager when new external users are invited, instead of the SharePoint Invitation Manager.

• Feature ID: 117557
• Added to roadmap: 3/10/2023
• Last modified: 3/15/2023
• Product(s): SharePoint, OneDrive
• Cloud instance(s): DoD, GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
• Platform(s): Web
• Release phase(s): General Availability