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Jason Armenise's avatar
Feb 22, 2020

Assign External Users full Office 365 Licenses?

Is it possible to assign a license of Office 365 to an external user?  It is possible within the Office admin center and the AAD admin portal to assign a 'guest' a license.  However while it does assign them a license it appears they aren't able to use that license.  I've tried this with a guest authenticated through MSA and a guest from another valid AAD tenant (neither had their own Office 365 license).  

 

So is it possible to assign the license to an external user have them use the license?  I suspect no, but then why does it support assigning those licenses in both Office Admin Center and AAD Portal?  

  • Why do you want to assign a license? Technically it is possible, you can even create a mailbox for such users, but you have to play with the account properties a bit. Or you can make it a GA for that matter.

    • cpinotossi's avatar
      cpinotossi
      Copper Contributor
      Hello Vasil.
      do you happen to know where to find further details about how exactly "to play with the account properties"? Thanks a lot
    • Jothimani020489's avatar
      Jothimani020489
      Copper Contributor

      ChrisHoardMVP 

       

      Hi Chris, 

      I have doubt on below question

       

      regarding Cross tenant Sync, check if user can use Office license from source tenant for all the activities on target tenant

    • sophiasun's avatar
      sophiasun
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      Thanks Christopher! To confirm, can you use Office Admin and AAD Portal to assign ANY usable license to an external user? E.g. Teams?
      • No problem! I am not aware of any limits, but unfortunately - and returning to the original point above - it isn’t officially supported so I would not be surprised if you ran into an issue trying to assign a particular licence to an external user in terms of applying the licence or functionality

        Best, Chris

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