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Brandon Hofmann
Jan 03, 2020Copper Contributor
Microsoft 365 E5 Compliance license creating mailboxes for mail users (which we do not want)
 We recently purchased Microsoft 365 E5 Compliance and E5 Security licenses to assign to our users (who already have the Microsoft 365 E3 license).     About 1/3 of our users do not have a mailbox hos...
rene_weber
Jan 04, 2020Brass Contributor
Hello Brandon,
Maybe the solution for this would be inviting the users from other company's as guest user in your azure ad. (Its called B2B collaboration, check here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/b2b/what-is-b2b)
I dont think the features will work, without giving them access to exchange. As a workaround, you could change the GAL with powershell.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/address-books/address-lists/configure-global-address-list-properties#use-the-exchange-online-powershell-to-modify-global-address-lists
Maybe the solution for this would be inviting the users from other company's as guest user in your azure ad. (Its called B2B collaboration, check here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/b2b/what-is-b2b)
I dont think the features will work, without giving them access to exchange. As a workaround, you could change the GAL with powershell.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/address-books/address-lists/configure-global-address-list-properties#use-the-exchange-online-powershell-to-modify-global-address-lists