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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.
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.
Juan is correct:
- In an organization, all internal users (i.e. belonging to that organization) that actually access internal SPO resources must have a license.
- External users, instead, don't need a license. But they must be external, i.e. not belonging to the organization.
As you have found, such license requirements are not enforced.
Nevertheless, you must fulfill it.
Has everyone and Juan Said, you have to be licensed on every user in your organization that use SPO, only External users does not need a licence.
If a user has the same domain validated on your Tenant need's a license, other's are considered automatic external users and does not need a license.
