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All about managing external users in Microsoft Teams

Written by Benjamin Stierle | 02 May 2022

Are you still wasting valuable time and resources manually managing your External Users in Microsoft Teams? Then you should definitely read this article. 

You can quickly invite external users to your teams. But who monitors the external users and who finds the time to remove them manually? 

Collaborating with external users in Microsoft Teams is unavoidable nowadays. But often they are simply forgotten after the collaboration. As a result, they continue to exist in the teams unintentionally. For the period in which the external users have access to your teams, you have simultaneous access to the shared data. 

According to the "Teams Governance Study 2022" by HDM Stuttgart, 71% of the companies surveyed remove their external users from their teams manually. Automation for the maintenance of external users is neglected here. 

Without keeping track of your external users, you are thus taking an enormous security risk. However, active monitoring also means additional work for your IT department.