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...

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Brandon Hofmann

Copper Contributor

Jan 06, 2020

rene_weber - Thank you very much for your reply. Unfortunately these user's that have outside mailboxes are not in the O365 environment. Some are Gmail, some are Exchange on-prem, one might even be Domino. Since they do not have O365 in their other companies I do not believe B2B will work in this instance.

VasilMichev - Per your instructions, here are the services that are part of E5 Compliance (along with their more user-friendly names. Let me know if there is anything else I can provide, thank you for your assistance!

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M365_ADVANCED_AUDITING - Microsoft 365 Advanced Auditing
INFORMATION_BARRIERS - Information Barriers
PREMIUM_ENCRYPTION - Premium Encryption in Office 365

MIP_S_CLP2 - Information Protection for Office 365 - Premium
PAM_ENTERPRISE - Office 365 Privileged Access Management
EQUIVIO_ANALYTICS - Office 365 Advanced eDiscovery
LOCKBOX_ENTERPRISE - Customer Lockbox
RMS_S_PREMIUM2 - Azure Information Protection Premium P2

rene_weber

Brass Contributor

Jan 06, 2020

Brandon Hofmann This isnt a problem. It works perfectly with google (Just needed as Identity provider) and other aad.

For everyone not using google or microsoft, there is a preview feature in aad. Use one time passcode, so your users will get a one time password and cat authenticate with this password in your azure ad.

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