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Sharepoint Online - users access without licenses
External users will be able to do whatever they have been giver permission to do.
You don't need to assign licenses to external users, see https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Manage-external-sharing-for-your-SharePoint-Online-environment-C8A462EB-0723-4B0B-8D0A-70FEAFE4BE85
You mention extending your Intranet to O365. Does that mean you currently have SP on-premises or do you have some other intranet software. If it is SP, you can do a Hybrid configuration.
Actually Dean_Gross, that's not entirely true. For internal users, you can ask Microsoft (via a support ticket) to either enforce or not enforce the license requirement for SharePoint Online.
When migrating from on premise to online, it can often be easier to not enforce the license, which is why Microsoft has made this an option.
Microsoft has also recently changed a related issue: if you have licensing enforced, those user accounts will no longer appear in the People Picker.
All of that said, it's important to remember that this is a technical way to enforce the licenses -- no matter what you choose, you are still required to purchase licenses for your internal users.
Exactly, we did not realise our users were not licensed until we came to testing OneDrive and without a license you cannot use that service at all.
Deleted, thanks for the reminder, I had forgotten about that option.
Is this a permanent soltuion/feature? Allowing internal users access to SharePoint Online prior to getting their license for SharePoint/OneDrive allows us the chance to focus on OneDrive and O365 portal adoption while continuing the migration of SharePoint sites from On-premise to SharePoint Online at a different pace. Or will Microsoft at a later date say, sorry, this option is no longer available. Note: we do have the required SharePoint licenses.
Laurie Beamish - this was described to me as a mistake someone made a few years and now it's impossible to put the toothpaste back in the tube.
However, you're right - Microsoft could simply flip a switch without notifying anyone (the switch to not enforce it was implemented with no notification).
Thank you for response.
1. About Internal/External users - this will be in the future or it's right now?
i've made few tests now:
- allow full control for internal (synchronized) user to O365 root site. After login user can do everything with permissions Full control
- allowing Full control for External user was same as with internal
2. About shareing to external users i know options (thank you for link) - this point is clear for me
3. Yes we have SP onpemise and in the near future will be created hybrid envirtonment - this point is clear for me.
