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Multiple AD-users same Office 365 mailbox. How many license needed?
Hey, We are working with E1/E3 licenses but are not sure how many licenses we need. The local AD is dirsyned to Office 365. We have 8 AD users with generic login names (Logistics1, Logistics2...
I agree with Vasil, get some advice from Microsoft directly or a partner. that way you can get a definitive answer, rather than us speculating.
To add a bit of background info though, as I understand it, Office 365 is sold through the User Subscription License (USL) Model and that means -
"A company and its affiliates can purchase a USL for every employee in their company or a subset of employees. Each USL is assigned to an end user."
where the "USL is tied to the user. Within the context of this document, “user” refers to end user of the service".
Based on that, I would assume you would require 8 licences but a licencing rep would be able to confirm that for you for sure.