Mar 10 2017 06:20 AM
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 automation). I have enabled external sharing for other 200 users using "Allow sharing only with the external users that already exist in your organization". I have created the users on the cloud without license then I shared the site collection with the users that i have created. For doing that i have successfully enable all the users to access the site collection. I have couple of question regarding this.
1. Is there any license compliance issues based on what i did?
2. When do i need an SharePoint licenses?
Thank You.
Mar 10 2017 08:10 AM
Mar 10 2017 08:27 AM
Mar 11 2017 03:25 AM
Juan is correct:
As you have found, such license requirements are not enforced.
Nevertheless, you must fulfill it.
Mar 11 2017 04:26 AM
Has everyone and Juan Said, you have to be licensed on every user in your organization that use SPO, only External users does not need a licence.
If a user has the same domain validated on your Tenant need's a license, other's are considered automatic external users and does not need a license.
Mar 11 2017 06:38 AM
SolutionYou are violating the license requirements, see https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Manage-external-sharing-for-your-SharePoint-Online-environm... for the details, the following statement from that page makes it quite clear:
Mar 11 2017 07:21 AM
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Mar 11 2017 11:35 PM
Mar 11 2017 06:38 AM
SolutionYou are violating the license requirements, see https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Manage-external-sharing-for-your-SharePoint-Online-environm... for the details, the following statement from that page makes it quite clear: