{"id":4861,"date":"2017-09-13T18:04:28","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T18:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/?p=4861"},"modified":"2017-09-13T18:04:28","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T18:04:28","slug":"microsoft-brings-guest-access-feature-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/2017\/09\/13\/microsoft-brings-guest-access-feature-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft brings guest access feature to \u2018Teams\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has rolled out a new feature on its \u2018Teams\u2019 service which will allow guest access to all Office 365 commercial and education customers.<!--more-->The feature will allow Office 365 users to add people from outside their company to a team, so the guests can participate in chats, join meetings, collaborate on documents and more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeginning today, anyone with an Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) account can be added as a guest in Teams,\u201d said Lori Wright, General Manager, Microsoft Teams, in a statement late of Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat means anyone with one of the more than 870 million user accounts across Microsoft commercial Cloud services and third-party Azure AD integrated apps, can be added as a guest in Teams,\u201d Wright added.<\/p>\n<p>The guest access comes with the ability for IT enterprises to centrally manage how guests participate within their Office 365 environment. IT admins can view, add or revoke a guest\u2019s access whenever needed.<\/p>\n<p>The company also said that 125,000 organisations in 181 markets now use \u2018Teams\u2019, as compared to 30,000 organisations in 145 markets in January.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has also rolled out Outlook add-ins including Evernote, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Microsoft Translator, Nimble, OnePlaceMail, Outlook Customer Manager, Smartsheet and Trello for Android.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IANS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Picture courtesy: Alamy Image<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has rolled out a new feature on its \u2018Teams\u2019 service which will allow guest access to all Office 365 commercial and education customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4861"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4863,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4861\/revisions\/4863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}