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Thomas_Steibl
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Feb 07, 2020
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Restrict access to i.e. Planner

I removed all applications from my users because I only want them to try out Microsoft Teams from the whole Office 365 package. Nevertheless they are able to access Planner online services (only with...
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    VasilMichev
    Feb 07, 2020

    Many apps within the O365 suite do not honor license assignments, and for some the users can even self-sign to a "free" tier license, making it impossible to disable access. In some cases, app-specific restrictions can help, in others you can play with Conditional Access policies and such, but there is no single solution sadly.

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Thomas_Steibl
Brass Contributor
Feb 07, 2020
Thanks for your response. I kind of expected something like that. And I'm also well aware of the fact that Teams is the hub for collaboration and therefore you need all these tools. Nevertheless I have to roll it out slowly in our company and a requirement for that is to use only Teams for videoconferencing. Nothing more nothing less.

I don't get it, that I have the option to disable the applications in the license menu, but this only hides it within the application launcher and nothing more... Kind of a weird solution.
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VasilMichev
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Feb 07, 2020

Many apps within the O365 suite do not honor license assignments, and for some the users can even self-sign to a "free" tier license, making it impossible to disable access. In some cases, app-specific restrictions can help, in others you can play with Conditional Access policies and such, but there is no single solution sadly.

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    Thomas_Steibl
    Brass Contributor
    Feb 07, 2020

    Thanks a lot VasilMichev 

    I guess I'll try my best to restrict the access at least for the time being.

    I'm looking forward to use the whole O365 suite corporate wide 😎

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