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External users management

External users management

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External users management

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- [Instructor] While we're on the topic of users, let's talk about managing external users. If you remember from the overview, there are two solutions for external users. The first one is Azure AD B2B, or business to business. It's implemented when you have users in partner companies, who need access to your corporate resources. How this works, is that you send them an email invitation to join your Azure AD tenant. Once they accept the invitation, they show up in your directory and can be given access to any resources, in the same way that you would to other internal users. Since these are external identities, they have an external identity provider. So the authentication of such users happens at the external provider and then they are redirected to the resources they need to access in your tenant. You don't have to worry about passwords, or any part of the lifecycle of such accounts. You can invite users from other Azure AD…

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