Why Unlicensed User can access to my sharepoint sites?

09/28/2017

Question

_{Thursday, September 28, 2017 12:47 PM}

Dear,

Following this scenario:

I create an Office 365 user, without license.
I grant permissions to this user in my Intranet
He can access to the content.

The only difference I can see with a licensed user is that on the top left bar (the menu is empty of course), there is Office 365 but not SharePoint after written.

But he still can access to the page: <baseurl>/_layouts/15/sharepoint.aspx AND create a a team site.

Is this a normal behaviour?

Regards,

All replies (5)

_{Friday, September 29, 2017 6:59 AM | 2 votes}

Hi,

Unlicensed Users can access any SharePoint Sites based on whatever permission they have. If you add the unlicensed user to site owner group, the unlicensed user can create a site.

The following articles for your reference:

SharePoint Site Access by Unlicensed Users

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/sharepoint-site-access-by-unlicensed-users/6ff1b2b8-160c-4163-ab65-bbbee74a99f5?auth=1

SharePoint Online - users access without licenses

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Office-365/Sharepoint-Online-users-access-without-licenses/td-p/14817

SharePoint access for non-licensed users

https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/194785/sharepoint-access-for-non-licensed-users

Best Regards,

Dennis

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_{Friday, September 29, 2017 1:08 PM}

Here is helpful links

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Manage-external-sharing-for-your-SharePoint-Online-environment-c8a462eb-0723-4b0b-8d0a-70feafe4be85

Abenet

_{Friday, September 29, 2017 1:23 PM}

Thank you, but it's not linked to external user. The site collection isn't shared to external.

_{Friday, September 29, 2017 1:24 PM}

Thank you very much for your links.

Do you know if this will remain like this forever?

_{Tuesday, October 3, 2017 1:36 AM}

Hi,

Unfortunately, there is not a official article talk about this currently.