Teams Add New Members – You Are Not Authorised
Using Teams and trying to add External contacts as members of a team? Lets see what happens.
Open the menu to a team and click on Add members.
Lets try and add an external contact as a member by entering their email address and clicking Add.
We get an error message saying we couldn’t add member and you are not authorised.
If you add a user within the tenant it works fine, what’s going on?
The issue here is that only contacts who have an Office 365 tenant associated with their email address can be added as members of a team site. Basically the external contact must be using Office 365! Not even a Microsoft live account can be used, it must be an Office 365 account.
Hope this clarifies the issue for you! and it would be nice if Office eventually let us add non 365 accounts but that’s unlikely to happen any time soon if at all.
22nd October 2017
Well, you could add the user as a guest in Azure AD, apply group rights and then configure Teams to allow guest users in general:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/guest-access
Maybe there are additional issues, but like this it was possible to add just a private mail address to a Teams group.
22nd October 2017
Hi Roland,
Interesting work around! I’m verifying this now but sounds hopeful.
24th October 2017
Hi Roland,
I couldn’t make this work. I created a guest user in Azure AD, enabled guest users in teams and assigned the guest user to the team but the portals just don’t recognise the username.
I even tried using the guest username ianwaters2004_gmail.com#EXT#@Office365LabA.onmicrosoft.com which lets the user log in but teams denies the user access.
If anyone can offer further advice on this that would be very helpful, even a guide I can re-post here would be great.
28th August 2018
Login to portal.azure.com > Azure Active Directory > Users – User settings > External collaboration settings
and play with the option: “Admins and users in the guest inviter role can invite”
14th September 2018
Hello Ian,
Dit you get an answer to this problem?
16th September 2018
Hi Peter,
Not using the suggested fix no.