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Sajith G H
Nov 27, 2019Brass Contributor
Office 365 E3 assign license for SharePoint
The client is having Office 365 E3. The valid count is 1309 & assigned count is 409 show in the license page (under Billing) of Office 365 Tenant. Few users are assigned Office 365 E3 license and...
Beau Cameron
Nov 27, 2019MVP
Sajith G H While your users can access SharePoint without a license assigned, you still need to own these licenses for each user who accesses SharePoint (It would fail an audit otherwise).
You should be assigning licenses to those users.
Sajith G H
Nov 27, 2019Brass Contributor
Thanks for the information.
It would fail an audit otherwise - Could you please explain more on this.
- Beau CameronNov 30, 2019MVP
Sajith G H Office 365 is licensed on a "per-user" basis. For every user that is accessing SharePoint Online, they need to have a license. Audits are conducted to confirm your organization is adhering to these terms of your service.