MC938541Microsoft Teams admin center: Manage external access policies for users in your organization

Coming soon: Manage External access policies for users in your organization using Microsoft Teams admin center.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 423476.

The new external access policy management page allows admins to easily view, add, edit, and remove external access policies for users within their organization, all through the Teams admin center UI. Previously, these actions could only be performed using PowerShell commands, but now they are also accessible directly in the Teams admin center.

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out mid-January 2025 and expect to complete by late January 2025.

General Availability (GCC): We will begin rolling out late January 2025 and expect to complete by late January 2025.

General Availability (GCC High): We will begin rolling out early February 2025 and expect to complete by early February 2025.

General Availability (DoD): We will begin rolling out mid-February 2025 and expect to complete by mid-February 2025.

How this will affect your organization:

Navigation: Teams admin center > External access > Policies tab:

Policy management tasks that admins can perform:

Creating and saving new custom policies:

This change will be available by default for admins to configure.

What you need to do to prepare:

This rollout will happen automatically by the specified date with no admin action required before the rollout. Admin center UI to view, edit and manage external access policies would be available for use by tenant admins.

Learn more: IT Admins - Manage external meetings and chat with people and organizations using Microsoft identities - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Learn (will be updated before rollout)