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Jason Armenise
Feb 22, 2020Former Employee
Assign External Users full Office 365 Licenses?
Is it possible to assign a license of Office 365 to an external user? It is possible within the Office admin center and the AAD admin portal to assign a 'guest' a license. However while it does ass...
- Feb 22, 2020Hi Jason Armenise
Thanks for the question! Unfortunately, no. See article
https://www.petri.com/adding-subscription-external-office-365-user
You can physically assign a licence to an external user but it’s not supported. You will want to refer to the official docs on adding B2B users/guests
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/b2b/add-users-administrator
Hope that answers your question!
Best, Chris
Feb 25, 2020
No problem! I am not aware of any limits, but unfortunately - and returning to the original point above - it isn’t officially supported so I would not be surprised if you ran into an issue trying to assign a particular licence to an external user in terms of applying the licence or functionality
Best, Chris
Best, Chris
msoppelsa
Dec 16, 2020Copper Contributor
Are you sure, it's still not officially supported?
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/admin/manage/assign-licenses-to-users?view=o365-worldwide#assign-a-license-to-a-guest-user
Assign a license to a guest userYou can invite guest users to collaborate with your organization in Azure Active directory admin center. To learn about guess users, see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/external-identities/what-is-b2b If you don't have any guest users, see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/external-identities/b2b-quickstart-add-guest-users-portal.
Important
You must be a Global admin to do these steps.
- Go to the https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=2067268
- In the navigation pane, select Users.
- On the Users | All Users (Preview) page, select Add filters.
- In the Pick a field menu, choose User type, then select Apply.
- In the next menu, select Guest.
- In the list of results, select the user who needs a license.
- Under Manage, select Licenses.
- Select Assignments.
- On the Update license assignments page, select the product you want to assign a license for.
- On the right, clear the check boxes for any services you don't want the guest user to have access to.
- Select Save.
This sounds as it would be supported...?