Microsoft Teams: Change Guest to Member

For the topic of Microsoft 365 security and Microsoft Teams guest access, we often get questions about how you can change a guest to a member in Microsoft Teams.

Maybe you invited someone as a guest user to your Teams, and now you want to give them more rights. (Although a lot of permissions can be given to guests as well – check out our blog posts with details on how to add guest to Microsoft Teams to learn more.)

Whatever your reason, sometimes it makes sense to change guests to members.

Change Guest to Member in Microsoft Teams

Unfortunately, we have bad news for you. Changing guests to members in Teams is not possible as of now, December 2023. Access to Teams – or all other Microsoft products – is based on your email address, or to be precise your domain.

In order to become a member of your MS Teams and not just a guest, users need an account based on the domain of your organization.

That is why you can not simply change a guest user account to a member account – because they would be in two different domains.

For more information on how to manage your teams and guests, take a look at our Microsoft Teams Governance overview!

Take a quick look at our External User Manager if you would like to find out how you CAN manage guests in Microsoft Teams – and additionally improve your Microsoft 365 guest user management and security.

Florian Pflanz

Head of Marketing & Sales at Solutions2Share – Florian Pflanz has 6 years of M365 experience and has been involved in numerous projects concerning Microsoft Teams governance. In over 200 workshops, he has collected extensive knowledge and best practices regarding Microsoft Teams and companies’ management requirements.

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