Can Members of Other Institutions be Invited as Microsoft Teams Members

This article will go over how to invite a non-JMU account to a JMU owned Teams channel or chat.

This article will go over how to invite a non-JMU account to a JMU owned Teams channel or chat.

Microsoft Teams

Yes, you can add guests from any domain to a Microsoft Team or chat (i.e. @gmail.com, @gmu.edu, etc):

1. Type in an external user's whole email address (that doesn't already have a guest account) in the add members dialog,
2. Sometimes, instead of "Add as a guest" you will only see a list of already existing accounts that have similar names.
   • For example if you tried to add Dolley Madison's home outlook address (madisodp@outlook.com) and she already had a JMU email account, it would only show her JMU email account (madisodp@jmu.edu).  This can also happens when starting a Teams chat.
3. To resolve this, you have to copy and paste the whole email in at once in to the invite.

For additional questions you can contact the IT Help Desk at 540-568-3555 or at helpdesk@jmu.edu.