Can I partially license my organization with P1 licenses to make use of conditional access?

Question

Scenario: We have an SMB of 300 people where we only want to implement Conditional Access policies for 150 of them.

Question: Does it go against Microsoft's terms to license ONLY that portion of users to benefit from Conditional access?

We do not want to license the other half of the users in the organization, as they do not need conditional access policies applied to them.

I see a lot of conflicting information on this topic on the web; from Microsoft's articles, I've read that it might be within our bounds to license only the users that would benefit from P1. BUT, P1 is a 'tenant-wide' enabled feature. So this confliction I find confusing.

Here is the article I have been reading: Microsoft 365 guidance for security & compliance

Thanks in advance.

Michael

Answer 1

No - as long as you limit the scope of the CA policies to these 150 users. You can specify which users the policy will apply to as part of the CA policy configuration

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Marcin