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Copper Contributor

Mar 10, 2017

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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...

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office 365

sharepoint

Dean_Gross
Mar 11, 2017
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.

Dean_Gross

Silver Contributor

Mar 11, 2017

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.

Rusiru Tharaka
Copper Contributor
Mar 11, 2017
Hi Dean,

Thanks for your response and it's now pity much clear for me regarding the compliance issue with Microsoft licenses.
- jcgonzalezmartin
  MVP
  Mar 11, 2017
  Please, tell us how you finally managed this situation with your customer
jcgonzalezmartin
MVP
Mar 11, 2017
I think the scenario is quite clear :-)...your customer is not correctly licensed and Dean's link and definition of what a External user means is quite clear...also Salvatore's and Nuno's comments are very valuable for you
- Rusiru Tharaka
  Copper Contributor
  Mar 11, 2017
  Hi Juan,
  
  Thanks for clearing things up.
  
  Thank You