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Sharepoint exteranl sharing
Hi all, I have a customer that has 300 users and they only have 100 SharePoint licenses. We develop intranet on one of their site collection (Just a random web pages without any workflows or auto...
You are violating the license requirements, see https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Manage-external-sharing-for-your-SharePoint-Online-environment-C8A462EB-0723-4B0B-8D0A-70FEAFE4BE85?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US for the details, the following statement from that page makes it quite clear:
- External users are not employees, contractors, or onsite agents for either you or your affiliates.
My 2 cents here:
1.- Your customer is not compliant with Microsoft license requirements since they have only licenses for 100 users, but they have 300 users
2.- You need a license for every corporate user (living in your AD) that is going to access to SPO
1.- Your customer is not compliant with Microsoft license requirements since they have only licenses for 100 users, but they have 300 users
2.- You need a license for every corporate user (living in your AD) that is going to access to SPO
Thanks for the quick reply. I have some clarification.
1. So as a example if that organization wants to leverage the SharePoint services for specific division that has 100 users instead of buying license for that specific division they need to buy license for all the users (300)?
2. My question is at what point of time do I need SharePoint license for users? Because enabling access to the external users now I can use most of the functionality of the SharePoint without license.
1. So as a example if that organization wants to leverage the SharePoint services for specific division that has 100 users instead of buying license for that specific division they need to buy license for all the users (300)?
2. My question is at what point of time do I need SharePoint license for users? Because enabling access to the external users now I can use most of the functionality of the SharePoint without license.