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Reducing license cost D365 FO

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Hi Experts
 
I have few questions on the new licensing.
 
1) Is it mandate that every user must have one base license? Suppose a user is going to perform only limited access related stuffs like approve workflow, enter time/expenses, read data. In this case, does base license is mandate for this user which would cost 120 USD per month or only Team Members license is enough?
 
2) Can we also reduce the licensing cost by removing "Not entitled" object from a specific role? For e.g. "Accounts payables clerk" role has around 5900 "Not entitled" objects. So, by removing all these 5900 objects from "Accounts payable clerk" role, can we reduce the licensing cost?
 
3) I have created a new role "Payables clerk - Team members" by duplicating the existing role "Accounts payables clerk".
While creating this new role, I selected Licensing SKU as "Team Members" (as I want only Team members related access) and published the role.
I could see the new role in Licenses usage summary with related SKUs and entitles objects. Here, objects entitled to higher priority license like "Supply Chain Management" and objects entitled to "Team Members" license are same with same access level.
 
can I reduce the licensing cost by assigning this new role "Payables clerk - Team members" to a user?
 
Thanks
Sridhar Narayanan
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    André Arnaud de Calavon Profile Picture
    302,421 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at
    HI Sridhar,

    I'll try to help you with your questions.
     
    1) No. The Dynamics 365 licensing guide gives an overview of the available licenses and what license is require per role or type of task. There are base licenses, but also Operations - activity, Team members, and Device licenses. Some roles are excluded from a license.
     
    2) In theory, yes. However removing 5000+ objects will also remove functionality that is required for the user. You will need to do thorough analysis to know what to remove and where to gain. In my reviews last year, I was able to identify a lot of roles with too many permissions and was able to lower licenses.
     
    3) Your screenshot is missing the column for not-entitled objects. In case the value in this field is zero for the row with Team members, then it will be possible to use this one.
     
    You can read more about the license enforcement on my blog: Dynamics 365 Licensing Enforcement Advent Calendar - Dynamicspedia
  • Sridhar Narayanan Profile Picture
    1,090 on at
    Hi Andrea,
     
    Thank you very much and the info you provided would be really helpful.
     
    For the 3rd question, Yes, the non-entitled values are 0 
     
     
     
    Thank you again,
    Sridhar Narayanan

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