Teams is an app designed to help you collaborate and communicate with team members, clients, and guests.
For an overview of everything you can do, watch this video series: Getting started with Teams.
Work with guests in Teams
If you want to work with people outside your business in Teams, you must enable guest access:
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Log in to the Microsoft 365 admin center.
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In the left navigation pane, select Show all.
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Under Admin centers, select Teams.
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In the Teams admin center, in the left navigation pane select Users > Guest access.
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Make sure that Allow guest access in Teams is set to On.
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Make any changes you want to the additional guest settings, and then select Save.
Add a guest to a team
First, create a team:
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In Teams, on the Teams tab, select Join or create a team at the bottom of the left pane.
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Select Create team.
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Select From scratch.
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Choose Private or Public.
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Type a name and description for the team, and then select Create.
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Select Skip.
Then, invite users:
Guest sharing settings are now configured, so you can start adding internal users and guests to your team.
To invite internal users to a team:
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Select Add more people.
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Type the name of the person you want to invite.
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Select Add, and then select Close.
To invite guests to a team:
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Select Add more people.
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Type the email address of the guest you want to invite and select Add <email address> as a guest.
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Select Add, and then select Close.
Your invited guests will receive an email message letting them know they've been added to the team.
Tip: If they don't see the invite message in their inbox they should check their junk email or spam folder.
Next steps
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