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Can user without licenses access Sharepoint Online?
MicrosoftNo legally! This is very common in organizations that have a mix of licenses.
Ej. Some users may have Office 365 E3, and others only Exchange Online Plan 1. These Exchange Online users cannot legally access SharePoint Online shares and/or OneDrive shared by other users, nor access Teams meetings.
It's very simple: All users in the organization who want to use a service need to have their corresponding license. Besides this is something auditable.
This is different when we talk about external users of the organization. An external user accesses as a guest with limited functionalities, and obviously no license is required for external users.
Hello, is it ok for a company to add external users with an unlicensed normal user account instead of a guest account. Is this a non-compliance scenario and not legal? Are there other disadvantages or complications compared to a guest account. Normaly i would not recommend a client to use for their external users unlicensed normal user accounts but i cant find any argue agianst it.