Team owners can add anyone with a non-WVU email account, including HSC users with an @hsc address, as a guest to their team.
If most of the team's content is going to be used by HSC employees, it's best to have an HSC employee create the team and add the non-HSC users as guests.
Add a guest to a team
Click More Options (…) next to the Team name.
Select Add member.
Enter the guest’s email address. If they have an @hsc address, you can look them up in the Outlook Address book.
If needed, select the pencil icon to edit the guest’s name.
Click Add.
The guest will receive an email from Microsoft Teams with the subject "You have been added as a guest to West Virginia University in Microsoft Teams." Ask guests to check their Junk folder if they don’t see this email.
If a guest doesn’t have a Microsoft account associated with their email address, they will be directed to create one for free.
Once the guest has accepted the invitation, they will receive an email with an access URL specific to them. Make sure the user saves this URL in their bookmarks for future access. It may take a few hours before the guest has access to the Team.
Team members will see a message in the General channel announcing that a guest has been added.
WVU Information Technology Services (ITS) is unable to troubleshoot access issues for guests outside of WVU.
What can guests do on a team?
Guest can participate in the team via messaging and meetings, along with uploading and editing documents that have been added to Team channels like other members.
Guests can’t sync files within the Team to their local computers using the OneDrive client and are restricted to the teams they are added to; they can’t search for other teams within the WVU tenant or share files in a one-on-one chat.
View Microsoft's Team Owner, Member and Guest Capabilities page to learn more about what guests can and can't do in Teams.
Switch between teams for separate organizations
Guests who need to switch between Microsoft Teams instances for separate organizations can use the local Teams client to access one organization and the web client to access the other.
Guests can also switch between their Microsoft Office 365 tenants to use different instances of Teams. For example, HSC guests may need to switch between their HSC instance of Teams to access the WVU instance of Teams where they were added as a guest. To switch instances, click your profile photo then select to manage your account or select the organization from the list of tenants you have access to.
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