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Use guest access and external access to collaborate with people outside your organization
In this articleThis article describes two of the options for collaborating with people outside your organization:
For a complete overview of the external collaboration in Microsoft 365, see Overview of external collaboration options in Microsoft 365. External access (external chat and meetings)Set up external access if you need to find, call, chat, and set up meetings with people outside your organization who use Teams, Skype for Business (online or on premises) or Skype. By default, external access is enabled for all domains. You can restrict external access by allowing or blocking specific domains or by turning it off. External access is available to the following tenants:
To configure external access, see Manage external access. Guest accessUse guest access to add a person from outside your organization to a team, where they can chat, call, meet, and collaborate on files. A guest can be given nearly all the same Teams capabilities as a native team member. For more information, see Guest experience in Teams. Guests are added to your organization's Azure Active Directory as B2B users and must sign in to Teams using their guest account. This means that they may have to sign out of their own organization to sign in to your organization. Guest access is available to the following tenants:
To configure guest access for Teams, see Collaborate with guests in a team. Compare external and guest accessThe following tables show the differences between using external access (federation) and guests. In both cases, people outside your organization are identified to your users as being external. Things your users can do
Things people outside your organization can do
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