How to add bulk guest users in Azure AD B2B from Azure Portal and PowerShell

In this Azure ad tutorial, we will discuss how to add bulk guest users in Azure AD B2B from the Azure portal, also we will discuss how to add bulk users in Azure ad B2B collaboration using Powershell.

We can use Azure active directory B2B collaboration to work with vendors or external partners. Here we can invite bulk guest users to our organization.

Add bulk users in Azure AD B2B Collaboration from Azure Portal

Microsoft allows us to add bulk users in Azure ad B2B collaboration from the Microsoft Azure portal throw a CSV file.

The external users can have any type of account like Gmail.com or yahoo.com or outlook.com.

Login to the Azure portal. You can create a free Azure account.

Then select the Azure active directory.

Then Click on Users which is under Manage.

This will display all the users, here click on Bulk invite, which will display the bulk invite users page and an option to download a template, it is a CSV file.

 This is basically a sample or template which you can modify and upload here. Here you can add all the guest users you want to invite.

The CSV file looks like below:

You can modify and add all the guest users you want to invite.

Once the CSV file is ready, upload it like below:

Click on Submit.

Once it is done, it will show a successful message like below:

You can also click on the “Click here to view the status of each operation” link to check the status of each request.

The users will appear as Guests in the Azure AD.

The users will receive the email invitations and they can accept the invitation.

Check Bulk Operations Results

You can also check the bulk operations results. Click on Bulk operation results from the left navigation and it will display the File name, Status, Success, Failures, Total requests, etc.

This is how we can add bulk guest users in Azure AD B2B collaboration from Azure Portal.

Add bulk users in Azure AD B2B Collaboration using PowerShell

We can also use PowerShell to add bulk guest users in Azure AD B2B collaboration.

To work with PowerShell, make sure you have installed the latest version of the AzureADPreview module.

Install-Module AzureADPreview

You can also run the below command to check which AzureAD PowerShell module has been installed in your system.

Get-Module -ListAvailable AzureAD*

You can check the below tutorial on how to install the AzureADPreview PowerShell module.

• How to Connect to Azure in PowerShell (And Azure AD)
• Azure AD group membership PowerShell

Once you install the AzureADPreview module, next you need to make the CSV file ready.

Create a CSV file with the following columns:

• Name
• InvitedUserEmailAddress

You can create an excel and save the file in .csv format in your system drive. The excel file looks like below:

Now, run the below PowerShell command in PowerShell ISE to add bulk guest users in Azure AD B2B using PowerShell.

Connect-AzureAD -TenantDomain "SPSkyTraining.onmicrosoft.com"
$csvfilepath = import-csv e:\Bijay\BulkUsers.csv

$messageInfo = New-Object Microsoft.Open.MSGraph.Model.InvitedUserMessageInfo

$messageInfo.customizedMessageBody = "Hello. Join TSInfo Team."

foreach ($email in $csvfilepath)
   {New-AzureADMSInvitation `
      -InvitedUserEmailAddress $email.InvitedUserEmailAddress `
      -InvitedUserDisplayName $email.Name `
      -InviteRedirectUrl https://myapps.microsoft.com `
      -InvitedUserMessageInfo $messageInfo `
      -SendInvitationMessage $true
   }

You can see the invites like below:

You can check the users in Azure AD.

Or also, you can check the guest users in Microsoft 365 admin center.

New-AzureADMSInvitation

The New-AzureADMSInvitation Azure PowerShell cmdlet helps you to invite an external user to your Azure Active Directory.

Syntax

Below is the syntax of the New-AzureADMSInvitation Azure PowerShell cmdlet.

New-AzureADMSInvitation
 [-InvitedUserDisplayName <String>]
 -InvitedUserEmailAddress <String>
[-SendInvitationMessage <Boolean>]
 -InviteRedirectUrl <String>
[-InvitedUserMessageInfo <InvitedUserMessageInfo>][-InvitedUserType <String>] [<CommonParameters>]

Example:

New-AzureADMSInvitation -InvitedUserEmailAddress xyz@tsm.com -SendInvitationMessage $True -InviteRedirectUrl "http://myapps.microsoft.com"

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In this tutorial, we learned how to invite bulk guest users in Azure AD collaboration using PowerShell.