Teams – Azure B2B – Thiago Beier🍁

Hi there

Did you know that you can have 2 (two) different Microsoft Teams’ domain users collaborating across companies?

You can use the Azure AD B2B to orchestrate this.

Advantages

External / Guest users can be invited to a Teams (channels) on Company A (source)
External / Guest users can collaborate on supported file types (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) on real-time
External / Guest users will only see channels they’re allowed to within a specific Team on Source Company
Fully supported on Teams client (flat and web version)

Additional tasks

Teams & Channel management
Email to target (External / guest users) the invitation or Teams’ email (to join a team)
Enable users on Teams on both companies (Office 365 Tenants)
License users on Teams

Enable guest Access on Source Company at Home \ Settings \ Org-settings \ Microsoft Teams \ Allow guest access on Teams (enable it) or go to Teams Admin Center \ Org-wide settings \ Guest Access (set Allow guest access in Teams to On) and proceed with the following options.

on Company A:

create the Team and its channels
define which channels are going to be private and public
set General channel (create by default in every Team created) to allow only Admins posting on it
Manage this Team members and invite guest users user@targetcompany.com
Share this Team link (… get link to team) with target company so they can join to the team after they accept the invitation
evaluate its experience

on Company B (target company, partner, client, etc.)

accept the invitation on Microsoft Teams client or web client and get into the Team at Source Company
check the Team access
check the Channels’ access
try to collaborate with users from Company A (source company) by posting on the allowed Channel

At this demo

company A (source company calls ORDERGRID)

users from another company will be joining ORDERGRID’s Team and its channels

users from guest company will be able to collaborate under Members channel (Excel file)

users can’t post on General channel (only admins: managed by the Source Company)

users from guest company can see all posts and announcements at General channel