Force Tenant-Synced Users as Guest?

Question

I am reviewing the features of B2B Tenant Sync and read here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/multi-tenant-organizations/cross-tenant-synchronization-configure#step-9-review-attribute-mappings
that the source tenant gets to dictate the UserType for the user in the target recieving tenant.

Is there a way for the target recieving tenant to dictate or override the setting set by the source? We were looking at this option as a potential way to pre-confgure guests and have them persent in the GAL, but I don't think we're interested in these users being members.

Answer 1

Hi @Jeremy ,

There isn't a way to define or override the userType based on the target tenant. As mentioned in the guide that you linked, you can set the Constant Value setting for the userType in the source tenant to define the type of user that will be created in the target tenant. And if you already have a user created in the target tenant, the user type will not change unless Apply this mapping setting is set to Always.

If you want to pre-configure the users as guests, you can set the UserType to "Guest" instead of "Member" in the source tenant.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/multi-tenant-organizations/cross-tenant-synchronization-configure