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Frederik Madsen
Aug 16, 2018Copper Contributor
O365 Licensing T&C's - Sharing OneDrive document with externals and internals from a central account
Can someone please clarify whether or not it is allowed, under the terms and conditions of OneDrive and Office 365, to have a central licensed Office 365 account where documents are uploaded to and s...
Cian Allner
Aug 16, 2018Silver Contributor
I think that sounds reasonable, so if the central account shares a folder or individual files in OneDrive for Business with external consultants while the document is finalized, then brings them into the proper location afterwards, I don't see that affecting the licencing. I'd check out this article for other considerations, more from a SharePoint angle - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/external-sharing-overview.
- Aug 16, 2018Agree here, but bear also in mind that those external consultants "must" be external, otherwise if they belong to the organization in some way, you will need to provide a license to them