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Having internal AD users as unlicensed, shared customer accounts
We run O365 with SharePoint. One SharePoint site is planned to become some small customer portal, where customers can download relevant documents. To make it easy for the customers, we want to creat...
Martype If I understand correctly, you want to create the "user" in your Organisation AD/AAD & grant them access to SharePoint without providing any license. This will technically work but I suppose you might run into compliance issue as the user is created in your Organisation directory, so will be treated as "internal user".
You need to check external sharing capabilities of SharePoint, where you invite the external user into your tenant. This user will not be treated as an internal user.
https://sharegate.com/blog/ultimate-guide-deal-with-office-365-external-sharing
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/external-sharing-overview