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Multitenant organization (MTO): user licenses
Hello everyone,
As described https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/enterprise/set-up-multi-tenant-org, I have created an MTO. It seems to have worked because I can see users from tenant A in tenant B. Everything looks correct, as the users have #EXT# in their usernames, their type is “Member”, and their identity is “ExternalAzureAD”. BUT they are all unlicensed.
My question: is there a way to synchronize the licenses of the users, or do I really have to purchase the same license twice for a single user?
Specifically, I am interested in the following licenses:
- Microsoft 365 Business Premium (access to Teams, SharePoint, Exchange Online shared mailboxes, etc.)
- Dynamics 365 licenses (e.g., Business Central).
Thank you very much for your assistance, and warm regards,
Nico
2 Replies
- You cannot "share" licenses between tenants. If you have a need to assign a license to a cross-tenant synced user in the resource tenant, you will have to expend one of the available licenses therein.
If this is some sort of a tenant-to-tenant migration scenario, you can contact Microsoft to help with transferring licenses between the two tenants.VasilMichev if this is true, then MTO makes absolutely zero sense.
For a minor benefit of "kinda slightly better" integration, you now have to effectively double your license count and cost, for both tenants.
Moronic.
