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How to Accept people outside your org in Microsoft Teams

ByCorporate Guider Home, Teams

Collaborating with people outside your organization is seamless. Skype (for consumers) or Skype for Business users outside your organization can be accepted or blocked in Teams.

  • Messages can be sent to you in Teams and Skype once you accept. You can also let them know how you are doing.
  • Blocking someone will prevent them from sending you messages in Teams or Skype. Your status will also be hidden from them.

Note: Unblocking people outside your organization is easy.

Accept or block a person in chat 

  • Open the chat list by selecting Chat.
  • You can either accept or block the chat with the person by selecting the chat with the person.

Preview a message before you accept  

Before accepting a message, preview it to avoid spam or phishing attempts.

  • By selecting Chat, you will be able to see a list of chats.
  • You can preview messages by selecting the person’s chat and then selecting Preview messages.

  • You can either accept or block.

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Frequently Asked Questions

If you use Teams for personal use, Teams for business, Skype (for consumers), or Skype for Business, you can add or invite anyone outside of your Teams organization to a one-to-one chat.
Add external users
  1. Microsoft Teams should be open.
  2. Click the Chat tab.
  3. New conversations can be started by clicking the button.
  4. Enter the user’s email address.
  5. You can search externally by selecting ‘Search externally’.
  6. The message has been sent.

Joining Team (external users)

The invitation will be sent to your email address if you are invited as a Guest user. You can open Microsoft Teams by clicking on the invitation. The page will redirect you to a page where you must create an account with your existing email address.

Re: Unable to accept invitations in teams

In order to redeem the invitation, you must have a Microsoft account matching the email address of the invitation.

Accept or decline a meeting invitation
  1. Press Command+4 to open the Calendar view in Microsoft Teams. …
  2. You can find the meeting you want by pressing the Tab key repeatedly.
  3. Press Shift+F10 once you have selected the right meeting. …
  4. Select the option you want by pressing the Right arrow key until you hear it.
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