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Matt McNabb
Iron Contributor
May 30, 2017

Users Without Sharepoint License Available in People Picker

I recently noticed a behavior in the "People Picker" in Onedrive and Sharepoint Online that's kind of an issue. When a user attempts to share a file or folder and searches for users to share with, we...
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TobiasAT
Steel Contributor
May 31, 2017

I had the same issue in the past and found the answer in the topic at https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Office-365/Sharepoint-Online-users-access-without-licenses/td-p/14817.

 

For internal users, you can ask Microsoft (via a support ticket) to either enforce or not enforce the license requirement for SharePoint Online.

Microsoft has also recently changed a related issue: if you have licensing enforced, those user accounts will no longer appear in the People Picker.

 

I think your current tenant setting is to not enforce the license requirement for SharePoint Online.