Microsoft Teams : Feature update – (Updated) Microsoft Teams: External Access Chat Invitation Flow for Managed Organizations

Hi All,

Greetings for the day !!!

Today, update on new feature of Teams

Feature –  Microsoft Teams: External Access Chat Invitation Flow for Managed Organizations

Details

• In July, Microsoft announced this feature but then time lines are updated – now this feature will be rolled out by Mid – January
• Teams users will now see an invitation pop-up to accept or block an external user when receiving new chats from external users
• Along with this feature we also able to block external users at any point, which revokes access to presence and incoming messages.

Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 94646

DEMO

• In my local tenant – knowledgejunction1.onmicrosoft.com we have external user – psabadra@gmail.com
• This external user – psabadra@gmail.com is added in one of the Team of user – prasham@knowledgejunction1.onmicrosoft.com, here user prasham@knoweldgejunction1.onmicrosoft.com is owner of the team
• When external user – psabadra@gmail.com is try to chat, tenant user – prasham@knowledgejunction1.onmicrosoft.com receives message box / pop-up either to “Accept” OR “Block” as

• Here we have an option to view the “Preview message” as

• If tenant user accept request then they could proceed with chat with external user
• We have an option to “Block” external user as well
• If tenant user “Block” requests, we have confirmation dialog and warning message as

• Once tenant user blocked the external user, then wont be able to chat or see the presence
• But here, external user can be “Unblock” at any time as

• As external user get unblocked, chat can be resumed and presence of external user is also visible

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