Terminology

Guest - any identity from a different domain than the host tenant.

Microsoft Teams Wish List

Guest Wish List

Make a Guest equivalent to a Member

As an owner, I would like to be able to give a Guest the same capabilities as a Member, because then my long list of wants specific to Guests would probably go away and it would probably make it a lot simpler to implement than all of these one-off features for guests. This would probably be easier for most users to understand as well. More granular settings can be in an advanced settings section. We want to collaborate without handcuffs!

  • Project level setting that gives ALL Guests the same capability as Members.
  • User level setting that gives a Guest the same capability as a Member.

Guest - Granular Settings

As an owner, I want to be able to allow my guests to start the meeting without me or other members. I agree that the default setting should be to disallow, but I want to be able to decide.

Anyone can Record

As a meeting organizer, I want to be able to allow my guests to record the meeting without me or other members having to join.
As a meeting organizer, I want recordings for meetings that are in channels to be stored in the channel and anyone in the team have access to the recording.

Anyone can Schedule

As an owner, I want guests to be able to schedule meetings. As an owner, I want guests to be able to schedule meetings in a channel.

Anyone can Search

As a Guest I want to be able to search messages. As a Guest I want to be able to search files. Currently, I have to open SharePoint to do a file search.

Anyone can view Activity

As a Guest I want to be able to view my Activity. As a Guest I want to be able to view other's Activities.

Meeting Related

Scheduling

I want to be able to schedule a meeting in a channel via Outlook. This could be done by adding the channel's email ID to the invite. Currently, meeting invites are just treated like any other email. I want team members to be able to opt in to share their calendar availability so that meetings can be scheduled more easily.

Meeting Minutes

I would like to use OneNote for meeting minutes and them be searchable via Teams. I would like to have organization of meeting recordings and minutes that occurred in a channel. Maybe a calendar view tab in the channel.

Email related

Perform intelligent grouping of emails into conversations. Currently, earch reply to an email that includes the Teams channel creates a new conversation.

Search related

As a teams user, I want to be able to search meeting minutes via the Teams search interface. As a teams user, I want to be able to search meeting recordings transcripts via the Teams search interface. As a teams user, I want to be able to easily search the current channel or chat.