External Sharing in SharePoint and OneDrive is changing: What You Need to Know

In an ongoing effort to create a more secure environment by default, Microsoft is introducing an important security update that will affect how external users access content shared through SharePoint and OneDrive. Starting July 1, 2025, any links shared with external users before your organization enabled Microsoft Entra B2B integration will no longer work. This change applies to all organizations that have already enabled or will enable SharePoint and OneDrive integration with Microsoft Entra B2B (Most organizations I have looked into so far). External users trying to use old links will see an error message saying the organization has updated its guest access settings. To regain access, the content must be reshared. Highlights of how the change affects organizations who have enabled B2B: All external sharing will require guest registration. External users must be added as guests in your Microsoft Entra directory. Access will be managed through Microsoft Entra B2B Invitation Manager. T...

Proper presenter or attendee roles in Teams

Rolling out these days are the new presenter and attendee roles for meetings in Teams. This is yet another feature which brings Teams closer to the Skype for Business experience many are asking for.

Road-map feature 51047 should complete by the end of November, and will be enabled by default. I do recommend an update to training and user-guides.

To set the roles ahead of time, use the "meeting options" in the meeting entry to open up a web page where these settings can be set.

Locate the "Who can present", and choose from : "Everyone", "People in my organization", Specific people" and "Only me".

After you have selected "Specific people", use the search tool to pick the presenters.