Updated: April 1, 2025 (August 7, 2024)

External User Qualification Requirements

Rob Horwitz analyzes and writes about Microsoft licensing programs and product licensing rules. He also trains organizations on best Microsoft... more

Chart + caption explain the criteria a contractor or agent working on behalf of a Microsoft customer must meet for the organization to, as a cost savings measure, license them as an “external user” under the definitions in effect before and after a change implemented on Oct. 1, 2024.

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