Support for guest users in approvals

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Before, approvals could only be sent to other people in the same company, which is problematic for many businesses because processes often span organizational boundaries. Now, approvals support sharing and assignment to people in other organizations.

This is enabled through support for Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) guest users—approvals are still in the original organization, so that they can be managed by their tenant administrators. However, users from other tenants can be invited as guests and then assigned roles, giving them the permissions to participate in processes.