In this lesson, you will explore external collaboration settings and how Azure AD interacts with external identities.
Learning Objectives
- Understand how Azure AD works with external identities
- Recognise how to manage external collaboration settings in Azure AD
- Connect to an external organization using B2B direct connect
- Invite external users to collaborate using B2B collaboration
Intended Audience
- Users preparing for the SC-300 exam
Prerequisites
- A basic familiarity with Azure AD
Hello and welcome to Managing External Collaboration in Azure AD. My name is Lee Mucciarone, and I'm a Microsoft 365 content creator for Cloud Academy. I have four years of IT experience working for Microsoft, with two years of specialized experience as a customer training specialist, training users on Microsoft tools. As you're likely aware, Azure AD is an enterprise identity service that provides organizations with a wide range of tools for managing their users' identities. But alongside this internal identity management, Azure AD also provides organizations with a secure and streamlined solution for collaboration with external users. Today, we'll be going over the external collaboration settings, and how Azure AD interacts with external identities. Specifically, it'll be covering the following topics: How Azure AD works with external identities? How to manage external collaboration settings in Azure AD?
How to connect an external organization using B2B direct connect? And how to invite external users to collaborate using B2B Collaboration? Now that we know what we'll be covering in today's course, let's start off with how Azure AD works with external identities.
Lee has spent most of his professional career learning as much as he could about PC hardware and software while working as a PC technician with Microsoft. Once covid hit, he moved into a customer training role with the goal to get as many people prepared for remote work as possible using Microsoft 365. Being both Microsoft 365 certified and a self-proclaimed Microsoft Teams expert, Lee continues to expand his knowledge by working through the wide range of Microsoft certifications.