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Assign External Users full Office 365 Licenses?
- 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
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
- 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, ChrisAre you sure, it's still not officially supported?
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/admin/manage/assign-licenses-to-users?view=o365-worldwide#assign-a-license-to-a-guest-user
Assign a license to a guest user
You can invite guest users to collaborate with your organization in Azure Active directory admin center. To learn about guess users, see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/external-identities/what-is-b2b If you don't have any guest users, see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/external-identities/b2b-quickstart-add-guest-users-portal.
Important
You must be a Global admin to do these steps.
- Go to the https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=2067268
- In the navigation pane, select Users.
- On the Users | All Users (Preview) page, select Add filters.
- In the Pick a field menu, choose User type, then select Apply.
- In the next menu, select Guest.
- In the list of results, select the user who needs a license.
- Under Manage, select Licenses.
- Select Assignments.
- On the Update license assignments page, select the product you want to assign a license for.
- On the right, clear the check boxes for any services you don't want the guest user to have access to.
- Select Save.
This sounds as it would be supported...?
The document say yes. you can assign to external guest user.
But when i tried to do this with external identity Google + assign license on AD.
The google account can login to the organization, but the license do not update to it even after few hours. And i check on microsoft 365 admin center (portal.office.com > ADMIN), those users with google identity do not have a license and device tabs under its detail page.
