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Licensing question regarding PowerApps for external users
Thank's for your reply which did not really answer my questions.
In your first answer you write:
"Not a full license. As stated on the pg. 42 of the Power Platform Licensing Guide, limited external user access is included with your internal user licenses."
But this is not from the Power Platform Licensing Guide (which has only 29 pages) but from the Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide!
In the Power Platform Licensing Guide we finf on page 3 in section "Licensing Requirements for External Users" that external users must be appropriate licensed to access Power Platform and Date e.g. with an appropriate "Power Platform User SL".
When I look in your posted table which shows what license must be assigned to my guest users so they can run an app shared with them I can see that for a model drivern app usage (exactly what we want to do) he needs a Power App per app or per user license (exactly what we want do do).
So if I summarize, the question if I can provide an external guest user with a power apps licence for using a special designed model driven (or canvas) app is anwered with: YES!
Did I get that correctly?
Regards
Christian
Hey Christian_ORBIS
If you're sharing an application with users outside of your AAD, first add them as a guest to tenant and then license that guest identity appropriately. Basically you invite them in as a guest and you pay for their license.
Addendum: With model driven apps it is necessary for the app user to have an identity as is noted in this bullet point. Take it for what you will:- The user must exist as a user within the environment. It isn't enough to only be a Microsoft 365 user. This is because all users in an environment are accounted for and described within tables in the environment.
There's a big difference in how licenses are handled with Per App and Per User, though. With Per User licenses, you will be able to assign those directly to the guest identity. Per App licenses do not get assigned in such a manner which tends to confuse a lot of people. Those are allocated to the environment and the app must be configured to allow Per App passes.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/maker/model-driven-apps/share-model-driven-app
- JillArmour
Community Manager
anton_MS or @VPhillips_MS you able to help with the above inquiry?
Christian_ORBIS has asked "If I can provide an external guest user with a power apps licence for using a special designed model driven (or canvas) app is anwered with: YES!"
Thank you all. - jill
