Do I need to purchase Active Directory Premium licenses for my entire staff? #M365AMA

In this episode, the panel discusses the following community question:

“I am using the AD premium 2. But I have more staff than I am willing to pay for. The main team of 5, I can understand, a whole public institution is just too much. I cannot add janitors and sales that will never use these services much. Must I use AD B2C? but the B2C is for customers, and I already have very many of them. What can I do? it is very expensive to host 9281 people in an AD premium 2.”

Check out the panel discussion here:

 

Participating in this discussion were:

• Christian Buckley @buckleyplanet 
• Neil Hodgkinson @nellymo 
• Sean McDonough @spmcdonough 
• Shari Oswald @shortcutshari 
• Norm Young @stormin_30 
• Hal Hostetler @TVWizard 
• Sharon Weaver @sharoneweaver 

Some relevant notes/links shared by the team:

• Check on the requirements of each user. You do not need to blanket apply licences to all users in the tenant.
• https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/business/identity-access-management/azure-ad-pricing
• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/active-directory/external-identities/