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Everything you need to know on granting external and guest access in Microsoft Teams.


In this article we’ll explain to you in a very simple and concise way everything you need to know on external and guest access for Microsoft Teams, plus a lifesaving tip to increase productivity in this platform.

1-External Sharing

1- External Sharing: gives you the chance to communicate through chat, and coordinate meetings with a common calendar. Also, it is handy sharing documents, files, libraries and event complete sites by SharePoint Online. This feature is the best option to collaborate with someone outside your institution, when you invite him this member becomes a guest access. 

Now let’s dig into this type of access and its characteristics. Allows you to invite external users to become members of your team, which means you are giving access to an individual and not to a domain.  

So, what are the permissions for a guest access? 

  • They will have the capability to create channels, and share the channel files 
  • Can participate in a channel conversation, and private chats  
  • Be able to post, delete, and edit messages 

Permissions of Team Members and External Users with Guest Access

2- How to enable guest access in Microsoft Teams? 

In teams guest access is turned off by default and the only way to enable it is to be an Office 365 global admin. These are the following steps you need to go through:  

  • In the Microsoft Team Admin Center go to Org – Wide Settings and tap on “Guest Access” 

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  • Switch the “Allow guest access in teams” to ON and click save (Can usually take up to 24:00 hours for changes to become effective) 

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3 – Configure guest access in Microsoft Teams

This is a vital section of the setting up phase, because here you will manage what the guest will be able to see and do. In the same spot where we allowed guest access you can configure the settings for (Calling, Meeting and Messaging). Leaning on what you want to allow by clicking on or off and afterwards save it so it applies to your new settings  

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Remember guests once in the team can get access to all public channels, be aware.

Also a guest is not limited in actions (file sharing, calls, etc.)

4 – Now it is time to start adding some guests !!  

Only Team Owners can add guests in teams. Firstly, make yourself an owner of a team in (Teams > Manage) and start adding new users 

  • In the teams app on the left sidebar select “Team” and go to the team you want to add a guest  
  • Select more options and click on add a member  
  • Introduce the guest email address, afterwards click save and your guest will receive a welcome invitation email  

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With guest access your content never leaves your sight, because all your data gets saved on your tenant. Here you can protect it, oversee it and manage it. Different projects require different needs that’s why it’s essential to educate your users in order to have a secure environment where your data is secure.  

How to solve the issue with guest access being able to participate in every channel?

There is bad news and good news with this respect. The bad news is that this kind of control is not possible within the platform itself.

The great news is that AGAT has the simplest way to manage guest access into Microsoft Teams. Sphereshield for Microsoft Teams offers, amongst its complete suite, the possibility to get a granular customization on guest access and define which channels a guest can and can’t do.

To get a FREE live demo, contact us today.

Most of the content in this article was retrieved from https://sharegate.com/blog/microsoft-teams-guest-access-permissions-settings-how-to-add-guest

For more information on the capabilities and limitations of Microsoft Information Barriers read this post -> https://agatsoftware.com/blog/information-barriers-microsoft-teams-capabilities-and-limitations/

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How to get automatic meeting transcriptions for compliance regulatory usage?

Analysing recordings in Webex, MS Teams and Zoom

Companies that rely on UC (unified communications) software for video meetings, especially in these times, are faced with the challenge of enforcing compliance policy and maintaining a record of those for legal or internal purposes.
This issue has been relatively easy to address for messages (as we have currently been doing for some time), emails, sms and any kind of written information.
While written information can be easily organized, classified and analysed, not is the case with audio and video recordings.

As we’re talking about companies with several meetings taking place daily and video conferences being preferred over chat and email, the only way to address it is via software, and more specifically, about machine learning models that can “understand” audio and video.

The Challenge

This poses an enormous amount of challenges. The main ones are getting a reliable transcription of what was said and identifying text and objects that are shown on screen in the video . Other challenges are  understanding the language of the conversation, understanding if there is usage of proper or common nouns, getting an algorithm that can distinguish between speakers in a conversation… and the list goes on and on.

As a response to a vast number of requests on this topic, AGAT Software has launched its solution for Compliance AI Recording Analysis. AGAT is bringing audio and video (including screen sharing) analysis for DLP and eDiscovery needs.

How does it work

This is a simple diagram of how the solution works

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Diagram of Sphereshield Recording AI Compliance Analysis

Any DLP policy set to detect sensitive data is enforced on all communication types- messages, files, audio and video. , Once SphereShield detects such an incident an alert is created and awareness and preventive action is taken .

Watch the demo

The video shows 3 different scenarios implementing the Compliance AI Recording Analysis and how the user interface allows for search.

  • Sharing on screen an Excel with patient data (Social Security Numbers)
  • Discussing on the audio patient data
  • Sharing on screen a document which as a confidential classification mark on it

SphereShield can help addressing regulations such as FINRA, GDPR, HIPAA, MiFID II, PCI-DSS, amongst others

Main features:

  • Transcribe all recorded audio to 70+ languages
  • Analyse on-screen video with OCR
  • Search all meeting content using eDiscovery
  • Inspect meeting audio and video content by DLP policies
  • Ethical Wall – Enforce company policy on meeting attendee
  • On premises Archiving
  • Advanced AI and NLP Analytics

Transcribe all recorded meetings audio

Support audio transcription for 70 languages
Automatic language detection and Speaker enumeration: which speaker spoke which words and when.

Search meeting content using eDiscovery

Dates, Attendees names and type (internal/external), Text, Audio, Video, Keywords, Labels, Names, Etc.

DLP

-Inspect meeting audio and video for DLP policy compliance.
-Use SphereShield built-in DLP engine or integrate with leading vendors.
-Works with Symantec, McAfee, Google, GTB and Forcepoint.
-Smart DLP incidents with link to video and transcript time of violation

Ethical Wall

Validate meeting attendee using configurable compliance policies

Archive

Option to store video archiving on prem or on VPS

Advanced AI and NLP Analytics

for detection of:
-Named entities (products, countries, etc.)
-Emotion detection: Extract from what’s being said and voice tonality emotions such as joy, sadness, anger, or fear.
-Sentiments detection – positive / negative
-Automatic video scenes generation
-Labels and Keywords

More information by vendor:

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Real Time Audio DLP for Microsoft Teams

AGAT Software is proud to announce the launch of its latest reg-tech product: Real-Time Audio DLP for Microsoft Teams.

Many users are already used to dealing with DLP (Data Leak Prevention) policies when using UC (unified communications) software such as Skype for Business, Microsoft Teams, WebEx, Slack, etc.

These usually inspect near-real time files and text messages .Advanced DLP engines are able to inspect communication audio transcripts ,
but this is usually done long time after meeting has ended

So, what is Real-Time Audio DLP for Microsoft Teams?

Real-time Audio DLP for Microsoft teams uses NLP (Natural Language Processing) voice-recognition technology combined with the latest to be able to generate real-time transcript of a conversation, Theses capabilities allow SphereShield to identify sensitive keywords that will trigger DLP classic notification and auditing.
However, the key important differentiator is the ability to display IM messages during the meeting in real-time to the speaker with corrective action
to allow the user to avoid further risk and minimize data breach before further happening

SphereShield also offers Meeting recording management including eDiscovery, transcript. DLP, Ethical wall. 
The recording management will perform deep analysis of recording using NLP (Natural Language Processing)
including keywords, topics and even user identification detection/

Recording management is available for Microsoft Teams and soon will be available for Webex and Slack.

Please contact us here to learn more

This is a short demo of how powerful our software is.