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Limited the Azure AD Premium P1 Licenses to admins or devs
Depend on which particular features you are interested in. Some of those require AAD P1/P2 licenses for *all* users in the directory.
Hi VasilMichev
Thanks for your reply, I have had a look at some of the licensing documenation and it is unclear which features I may need to apply "budget busting" P1 licenses to "all" users. Could you please ellaborate on this.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/pricing/details/active-directory/
Also paragraph below is a bit vague given we are about to deploy the hybrid features to various users who won't have P1 or P2 licenses. I think it is referring to to the nice to have features such as 2 way AD sync
Designed to empower organisations with more demanding identity and access management needs, Azure Active Directory Premium edition adds feature-rich enterprise-level identity management capabilities and enables hybrid users to seamlessly access on-premises and cloud capabilities.
Licensing information per feature can be found in the article you linked in your original post. If you find the wording confusing, perhaps the support article can help: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/learn-about-office-365-groups-b565caa1-5c40-40ef-9915-60fdb2d97fa2#ID0EAACAAA=Features_&_Licensing
Hi VasilMichev
If you are referring to features listed in the first column, I do understand this. As it stands it looks like everyone will need a P1 license which to me is total overkill aka extortion ;-(
Can't say I disagree, but regardless of our attempts to discuss licensing for those features, Microsoft's stance hasn't change.
- ‘A proper licence is required if a user benefits directly or indirectly from any feature covered by that licence.‘ I’m not sure what an improper licence looks like :) Taken at face value it appears that any use requires all users to be licensed. One would have to prove a user did not ‘indirectly’ benefit to justify basic licensing only. I do think the P1 / P2 mix is a complicated question. I do think this is why EMS becomes attractive to larger orgs.
Yes it is confusing. The conclusion we have come to is P1 is not in the budget when considering the amount of users we have. It would be good to get direct and indirect status, verified by Microsoft.
My assumption is that I will have to disable features in the UI or use other techniques to managed Office 365 Group creation.
