Join Teams work meetings from Microsoft Teams (free) and vice versa

Microsoft Teams (Free) users can currently join Teams for work (or school) meetings only as guests, which requires them to use a browser and results in a sub-optimal experience. The new feature rolling out will allow these users to join Teams for work (or school) meetings in one click, without being redirected to the browser or asked to fill in their name/surname. They will also be able to continue collaborating with the meeting organizer and other participants via meeting chat after the meeting.  The feature will work in the opposite way as well, so Teams for work (or school) will just as easily be able to join meetings hosted by a Teams Free user with one click. This is associated with Roadmap ID: 167326

Microsoft is adding Google as an identity provider for B2B guest users

This is strictly not a Teams feature, but it does give the advantage of inviting gmail users to your Teams Team natively.

There is no need to do any changes for those users with gmail accounts you already have invited, as they have created their personal Microsoft accounts. But if you and the google admins want to create a B2B connections, users no longer have to create those personal accounts.

The guidelines for Google B2B setup can be found here. And according to a recent message in the Admin portal in Office 365, it should already be available in preview.

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