Chapter 7
Working with People Outside Your Organization
IN THIS CHAPTER
Understanding the difference between guest users and external users
Enabling guest access and configuring guest settings
Turning on and off guest permissions
Configuring external access
I spend most of my time working online with people in many different companies, with freelancers, and with other consultants. Rarely are we all in the same organization and on the same Microsoft 365 or Office 365 subscription. Microsoft seems to have recognized that many people are in similar situations, so it has built features into Microsoft Teams that enable people to work together even if they aren’t a part of the same company or organization. Most of this functionality is built into features known as guest access, and that is the focus of this chapter.
In this chapter, you learn about guest access in Microsoft Teams and how to add people to your team who are outside of your organization and Microsoft 365 or Office 365 subscription. You learn how to configure the access guest users have and how to limit their access based ...
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