SharePoint Online Gets Closer to Azure AD

We are continuing to see a trend with quite a few of our clients to replace their on site servers and moving to the cloud to share their files with others in their organizations. With the increased security being placed on this practice we are much safer than before for outside risks.

I have recently run across an article from office365itpros.com that discusses the closer integration of Azure AD B2B and SharePoint Services. It describes the need to review your Azure B2B Invitation Manager policies. This is the list that describes the allow and denial of access of domains. This is worth a quick look. I have included a quick list from their site that includes what this article contains.

Table of Contents

• ·         Azure AD B2B Collaboration and Guest Accounts for SharePoint Sharing
• ·         Rationalization Around Azure AD
• ·         Time to Review Applicable Policies
• ·         Review Guest Accounts Too

What is B2B in Azure AD? - B2B collaboration is a capability of Azure AD External Identities that lets you collaborate with users and partners outside of your organization. With B2B collaboration, an external user is invited to sign into your Azure AD organization using their own credentials.

What are the benefits of Azure B2B? - Azure AD B2B can also benefit your organization in other ways.

• ·         It's easy to invite guests and internal users quickly. ...
• ·         Guest users/collaborators can self-serve. ...
• ·         Use policies to securely share your apps and services. ...
• ·         Application and group owners can manage their own guest users. ...
• ·         Integrate with SharePoint and OneDrive.