How many ways are there to onboard Guest accounts in Entra ID?

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I’ve been writing some posts about guest accounts and wondered how many ways there were to do this.

So I started documenting them 😄

1) Via inviting a user from the User tab in the portal:

This sends an invitation to the guest user via email.

There is a quick start for this.

Note that you can do this from the Entra ID portal and the Entra External ID portal.

You cannot do this from the Azure AD B2C portal because adding a guest user there creates another admin. user for the portal; not another user.

2) Via the bulk invite feature via uploading a csv file:

This is just doing 1) in bulk.

3) Via an invite to Azure DevOps / Teams / Github

4) Via Microsoft Graph to send the user an invitation:

Use this API to create a new invitation. The invitation adds an external user to the organization.

5) Via Entra External ID user self sign up:

As per the link above:

Note that in Entra External ID (B2B), both ways create guest accounts, but in Entra External ID (CIAM) (B2C), only the invite creates a guest account.

6) From entitlement management via a link to MyAccess:

7) Via a guest onboarding flow with a Verified ID “Verified Employee” VC:

Thanks to @Luke and @Daniel for their input.

Have I missed any? Please add in the comments.

All good!