
Episode 335 – The vagaries of Office 365 licensing
Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast
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How to License Shared Mailboxes for Office 365 Groups
The licensing of this irritates me because up until now, every time I've seen stuff around shared mailboxes is shared mailboxes are free. They're shared by licensed users. You have to have an exchange online mailbox to even access a shared mailbox. It's not like I could be licensed for just SharePoint and somehow leverage the shared mailbox. So does this now mean I also have to buy a Defender for Office 365 Plan 2 license for every Microsoft 365 group and every team that I create too? Because those also technically have shared mailboxes under the covers. Yeah, it's a weird question. But it'd be good to clarify with everybody there.
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