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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 with the native Dataverse web APIs, where a portal is developed (not Power Pages) that allows the external users to interface (read/write) data.

My opinion is that because this is not Dynamics 365 and Power Pages are not being utilised to facilitate the access then there is no requirement for user (D365, Power App, or Power Pages capacity) licensing.  I would still need Dataverse capacity licenses, but that is all.

Appreciate any thought and insights.

Thanks,

Nick

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  • MartijnElfers's avatar
    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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