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Jason Armenise
Microsoft
Feb 22, 2020Assign 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?
- Hi Jason Armenise
Thanks for the question! Unfortunately, no. See article
https://www.petri.com/adding-subscription-external-office-365-user
You can physically assign a licence to an external user but it’s not supported. You will want to refer to the official docs on adding B2B users/guests
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/b2b/add-users-administrator
Hope that answers your question!
Best, Chris
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.
- cpinotossiCopper ContributorHello Vasil.
do you happen to know where to find further details about how exactly "to play with the account properties"? Thanks a lot
- Hi Jason Armenise
Thanks for the question! Unfortunately, no. See article
https://www.petri.com/adding-subscription-external-office-365-user
You can physically assign a licence to an external user but it’s not supported. You will want to refer to the official docs on adding B2B users/guests
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/b2b/add-users-administrator
Hope that answers your question!
Best, Chris- Jothimani020489Copper Contributor
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
Microsoft
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
- Jason Armenise
Microsoft
Thank you! That's what I assumed, just wanted to know if it was a bug or a not. Cheers!