Azure External Identities

• An external identity is a person, device, service, etc. that is outside your organization.
• Azure AD External Identities refers to all the ways you can securely interact with users outside of your organization.
  • Collaborate with partners, distributors, suppliers, or vendors,
  • Share your resources
  • Define how your internal users can access external organizations.
• With External Identities, external users can "bring their own identities." Whether they have a corporate or government-issued digital identity, or an unmanaged social identity like Google or Facebook, they can use their own credentials to sign in.
• You manage access to your apps with Azure AD or Azure AD B2C to keep your resources protected.
• Business to business (B2B) collaboration: -
  • Collaborate with external users by letting them use their preferred identity to sign-in to your Microsoft applications or other enterprise applications (SaaS apps, custom-developed apps, etc.).
  • B2B collaboration users are represented in your directory, typically as guest users.
• B2B direct connect:
  • Establish a mutual, two-way trust with another Azure AD organization for seamless collaboration.
  • B2B direct connect currently supports Teams shared channels, enabling external users to access your resources from within their home instances of Teams.
  • B2B direct connect users aren't represented in your directory, but they're visible from within the Teams shared channel and can be monitored in Teams admin center reports.
• Azure AD business to customer (B2C):
  • Publish modern SaaS apps or custom-developed apps (excluding Microsoft apps) to consumers and customers, while using Azure AD B2C for identity and access management.