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Azure B2B guest users licensing question
Hello, I am working on Azure B2B in order to add guest users in my Azure AD tenant. I am wondering how to know the following information? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-direct...
Hi Nico_P ,
No the 1:5 only applies to features which require paid licences. Anything that is free does not fall under this rule.
Can i aske a similar question with a twist. I have B2B External users also. Howerver they authenticate externally (of course, they are external) in thier local M365 enviroment. On my side , thier External user accounts I have converted thier UserType from "guest" to "member". (for a variety of good and useful reasons... think M&A integration )
In otherwords in my M365 tenent theyt are External-Member (as apposed to External-Guest). My qestion then is, is thier M365 license (from where they came) recognized on my side (as External-Members in my tenant). e.g. do they bring that with them thier license when B2B-ing into my tenent). Or perhaps since they are External- "Members" , i need to assign my licences (if and as required) ?
stewartgscott and MaheshMarthi
I am not sure if you ever got an answer on this one/
But to answer in short, a license can only license features in ONE tenant, so it does not travel with the user.
That said there are three scenarios to have in mind:
1. The user need access to O365 features om behalf of the company - that will require a license
2. The user uses AD P1 or P2 features like PIM - that do, not need license for the first 50.000 GUESTS in a B2B relation
3. The user is invited in to a Team or Sharepoint site - then his current license is used in the parent tenant
In between there are some “grey” areas of cause - but the above is covering 95% of all use cases.
- +1 Following post
- Thank you Paul for your answer!
Nicolas
