Determine, in Microsoft Entra, how far your tenant trusts and collaborates over B2B with other tenants, for both incoming and outgoing access.
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Terms in this definition
- Microsoft Entra
The umbrella brand covering Microsoft's identity and network access portfolio. Internet Access, Private Access, External ID and ID Governance all belong to it, built on top of the core directory service, Entra ID.
- Tenant
A trusted, dedicated Microsoft Entra ID instance that stores the users, groups and app registrations of one organisation. A subscription trusts only a single tenant, although a tenant can be trusted by several subscriptions.
- OVER
Gives a T-SQL window function its window: PARTITION BY, ORDER BY and, if wanted, a ROWS or RANGE frame. Rankings and running totals can then be worked out while every row is kept.
- B2B
Business-to-business features in Microsoft Entra External ID for working alongside partner organisations. Direct connect lets people share Teams channels with no guest account needed, whereas collaboration brings partners into your tenant as guests.
Related terms
- Configurable redemption
Lets administrators reorder the identity providers that guests are offered when they redeem a B2B invitation, instead of the default order. It is on the Redemption order tab of cross-tenant access settings.
- Microsoft cloud settings
Lets an organisation collaborate through B2B with tenants that live in another Microsoft cloud, such as Azure Government or Azure operated by 21Vianet; configured within cross-tenant access settings.
- Outbound access settings
Decide whether people in your tenant may use resources hosted by other Microsoft Entra organisations, either everyone or only selected users, groups and apps. They form one half of cross-tenant access settings, with inbound settings as the other.