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Device License vs User License for Dyn365 Guides & Author vs Operate Mode for each

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Hello-

We have 2x Hololens 2 headsets + Dynamics 365 Guides licenses, specifically 3 Guides User Licenses and 1 Guides Device license.  The idea was to assign the 3 User licenses to the individuals who would be AUTHORING guides on the Engineering headset, and then give the Device License to the Shop Floor headset where we would we have a multitude of individuals using this headset for training.  We have a generic device account they can use to log into the shop floor headset and would be able to Operate the various guides we have created for training purposes.

When I log into the headset on the shop floor using our generic account w/ the device license and open the Guides app, there is still the "Author" capability.  I thought device license would only support Operate mode and not Author mode, and this is why we had to purchase the User licenses was for the ability to Author guides.

The issue right now is because the Device License/Shop floor headset has both Author and Operate capability, the trainee could technically switch to Author mode and change all our released guides.  We want them locked down to only Operate mode so they do no have access to changing the released guides we have.

Why would a device license have the ability to Author? Were we incorrectly trained that only User Licenses would have Author capability?

Or Is this something not setup correctly by our power platform admin related to the Device License/Generic Device account.

Our team is only on the User side, there is a different department that manages our tenant/license assignment, Guides solution updates, etc.. within the power platform.

We are wanting to roll out an AR Training program using Dynamics 365 Guides but one of our problems is currently the trainees/shop floor associates have the ability to AUTHOR guides the Engineers are creating.  This is not the type of security/ access we want for our Shop Floor headset which should be using our Device License.

THanks for the help!

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    DavePinch on at
    RE: Device License vs User License for Dyn365 Guides & Author vs Operate Mode for each

    I'm glad to hear it was resolved. Regarding authoring: the Guides license agreement does not permit authoring with a device license. It is possible to circumvent the terms, but this would put the subscription out of compliance. Your setup is correct and thank you!

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    op-hicam 11 on at
    RE: Device License vs User License for Dyn365 Guides & Author vs Operate Mode for each

    Yes, I had our admin remove the Author role from the account.  When we were purchasing these Dyn365 Guides licenses, we were told that "Device License" would not be able to Author guides, and so that is why we purchased 3 User licenses for the individuals who would be creating the guides.  But now I think we did not get the correct information, it seems even a Device License can author guides as long as that Author role is attached to the account which has the Device License.  Would you agree Device Licenses can also author guides?  Seems like it...

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    DavePinch on at
    RE: Device License vs User License for Dyn365 Guides & Author vs Operate Mode for each

    Hi op-hicam, were you able to resolve the issue? It does sound like the device license user has an author role assigned. If you are still having issues, your admin can open a support ticket on the Power Platform Admin Center at https://aka.ms/PPAC (look for Help+Support on the left side menu and follow the prompts).

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    op-hicam 11 on at
    RE: Device License vs User License for Dyn365 Guides & Author vs Operate Mode for each

    THank you for the information, I will get in contact with our power platform admin.  We actually want to remove AUTHOR role from the shared user/device license account so they can other Operate a Guide.

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    Vincent Guigui 315 on at
    RE: Device License vs User License for Dyn365 Guides & Author vs Operate Mode for each

    You can assign/remove Operator role for the shared user in he Power Platform Admin site.

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/mixed-reality/guides/assign-role

    Someone mush have added the role to your shared user when creating the device license.

    learn.microsoft.com/.../device-license

    (sorry for not being more precise, I don't have access to power admin right now)

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