Folks, quick walkthrough on the new MTO feature that landed. You can now set up relationships between your tenants and manage sync from a single place if access is granted by the member tenants.

Once set-up the benefits include:

🎯 In Microsoft Entra you will be able to differentiate in-organization (MTO) users vs out-of-organization (B2B/Guest) external users

🎯 Improved collaborative experience in the new Microsoft Teams client where switching is more seamless and faster! https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/microsoft-teams-advantages-of-the-new-architecture/ba-p/3775704

🎯 Improved people search experience across tenants and viewing the profile cards of users from other tenants.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/enterprise/multi-tenant-people-search?view=o365-worldwide

PS Your tenant needs to be enabled for Targeted Release to try out this preview. You can enable this in M365 admin center > Settings > Org Setting > Organization profile tab > Release preferences > Targeted release for everyone

See here for more info https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/admin/manage/release-options-in-office-365?view=o365-worldwide

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Before we start, are you confused about where MTO fits in with existing capabilities like B2B direct connect, B2B collab and cross-tenant sync?

Here's a comparison...

We start by creating the multi-tenant organization..
Next add the member tenants (you can always add/remove later)

Configure sync settings...

Decide whether you want to allow users to be synced into this tenant and provide a seamless SSO experience by suppressing consent prompts that are usually seen by B2B Guest users

Confirm creating the MTO

Configure a name for your organization and add the list of member tenants that are going to belong to this group.

Finally share the users and groups from the owner tenant to other tenants for outbound sync.

Next header over to the other tenants and follow similar steps to join the member tenant to the owner tenant.

Once joined the member tenant will start seeing the users from the other tenants syncing across. Member tenants can also share their users/groups with other tenants...

There is heaps more content including templates over on the MTO Microsoft Learn hub.

Check it out at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/multi-tenant-organizations/

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@merill This looks really promising and am keen to try it out. Do you know if they're any overview videos on it, or too early for that stuff?
@damien It's a little early. I'm sure more posts are coming.