Exostar’s Managed Microsoft 365 Roles and Responsibilities

Roles and Responsibilities

• Sponsor: The sponsor organization is the owner of the secure enclave.
  • Member: Users from the sponsor organization are invited to teams as members. This is the standard Microsoft member role.  
  • Team Manager: The Team Manager role is the Exostar equivalent to Microsoft’s Team Owner role. Team Managers perform overall management of a team, including team configuration and membership. The Team Manager role is granted at the team level and can only be given to users from the sponsor organization.  There can be multiple Team Managers on a team.  
  • Sponsor Administrator: Sponsor administrators are responsible for oversight and management of their organization’s enclave in Teams. The sponsor administrator’s primary functions are to create teams and manage partner access. 
• Partner: A partner organization is an organization that has been authorized by the sponsor to collaborate in the sponsor’s secure enclave. The role given to a partner user is determined by the user’s authentication source.
  • Guest: External partner users that authenticate via Azure B2B are invited to teams as guests. This is the standard Microsoft guest role. 
  • Member: External partner users that authenticate using an Exostar-managed identity are invited to teams as members. This is the standard Microsoft member role. 

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