Microsoft Teams allows you to collaborate with people outside your organization, but that needs to enable by Teams admin by following these steps.
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Published by Kunal Chowdhury
on 04 January, 2021
Microsoft Teams is now one of the most popular platforms heavily used in several organizations. It offers employees to communicate with colleagues, transfer files, and stay connected within the teams. Though it is mainly focused to use within the organization, you can also communicate with people outside your organization.
In this post, we will learn how to enable your team to communicate with people (guests) outside your organization. The guests in Microsoft Teams will be covered by the same compliance and auditing protection.

In Microsoft Teams, a guest is a person who is not an employee of your organization. A guest doesn't have a school or work account with your organization. When you need to communicate with such guests, your Teams admin needs to enable Guest Access for your organization.

Once enabled, it may take a couple of hours for the changes to take effect. The above page also includes options to turn on or off the Microsoft Teams features that you want to enable or disable for your guests. Enable or disable those wisely as per your organization norms.
Solution Architect & Former Microsoft MVP
Kunal Chowdhury is an enterprise solution architect and former multi-year Microsoft MVP. He is the author of three technical books: Windows Presentation Foundation Development Cookbook, Mastering Visual Studio 2017, and the Mastering Visual Studio 2019.
He publishes technical articles on Kunal-Chowdhury.com.