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Nick_Beacroft
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Sep 04, 2025
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Licensing a Dataverse environment for external users

Looking for some advice and opinions please. This is for a standalone Dataverse environment. Not Dynamics 365, or Power Apps, or Power Pages. The question is about using a Dataverse environment wit...
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    MartijnElfers
    Sep 08, 2025

    I would agree on your notion, that no Power Apps / D365 license is required. 

    The Power Apps / D365 licenses are only needed for using the Power/D365 services. But since the users don't use the service and only consume Dataverse capacity. Licensing the Dataverse capacity should be sufficient in this case. 

    I agree, no user license is required here. 

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MartijnElfers
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Sep 08, 2025

I would agree on your notion, that no Power Apps / D365 license is required. 

The Power Apps / D365 licenses are only needed for using the Power/D365 services. But since the users don't use the service and only consume Dataverse capacity. Licensing the Dataverse capacity should be sufficient in this case. 

I agree, no user license is required here. 

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Sep 09, 2025

Love this exchange, that is what community is all about!! 💚

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