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Licensing for external guests in Office 365 Groups
The Office 365 Admin Center is actually pretty dumb about reporting unlicensed users. It considers the accounts used for site mailboxes (still a few clinging on) or the disabled accounts used for resource mailboxes to be unlicensed whereas you don't need to assign an Office 365 license to any of these objects.
Likewise, you don't need licences for guest users and a fix is coming to prevent the Office 365 Admin Center being quite so viligent about reporting guest users as being unlicensed. I met this issue during the beta of guest users, reported it, and was told that it would be addressed after the feature shipped. I'm waiting to see it show up.
TR
The Office 365 Admin Center is actually pretty dumb about reporting unlicensed users. It considers the accounts used for site mailboxes (still a few clinging on) or the disabled accounts used for resource mailboxes to be unlicensed whereas you don't need to assign an Office 365 license to any of these objects.
Likewise, you don't need licences for guest users and a fix is coming to prevent the Office 365 Admin Center being quite so viligent about reporting guest users as being unlicensed. I met this issue during the beta of guest users, reported it, and was told that it would be addressed after the feature shipped. I'm waiting to see it show up.
TR
