When Do Administrators Require Additional Licensing?

• Organizations typically provide administrators with separate sets of credentials for their user and administrative roles.
• Security-conscious organizations often implement a secondary workstation for admins to perform their work.
• Approaches like this are likely to generate licensing challenges with Microsoft hosted services.

Administrators within an organization typically have a regular user account (with limited privileges) that they use for general activities, and one or more distinct accounts with some type of administrative privileges that are used to perform their administrative roles within the organization. Because these administrators will be signing in to multiple accounts throughout the course of their work, they may require additional licenses for some services.

This report discusses the additional licensing requirements for the Microsoft 365 hosted services that administrators manage due to the increasing number of Microsoft services and software that require user-based