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I have a small company with ~100 employees. I also have M365 business basic license for my team.

I am building a Power App application now for my business, using Dataverse. I have following questions:

a) Should I buy Entra subscription separately in order to manage the users community. I would like to enable SSO eventually and I believe AAD would be the right choice for managing users, enable SSO. As I am a small business, do I need Entra? If yes, then would it be needed separately.

b) I would be needing to give access of my Power Apps application to my external users (customers, vendors etc). Would I need to buy Power Apps license for all these external users as well in order for them to use my application?

c) When I create access (read/write/edit anything could be there) of any user in my application, then would that be counted as number of users per app for my bil

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Governance & administering

Hello @Swati_Bansal

a) The Microsoft 365 products are based on Entra ID, and a free version of Entra ID is included in M365 business products: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/business/microsoft-entra-pricing

Unless you want to use advanced Entra features, you will not need to buy a separate Entra license.

b) Correct, external users would need to have a license for Power Apps as well: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/maker/canvas-apps/share-app-guests#what-license-must-be-assigned-to-my-guest-so-they-can-run-an-app-shared-with-them

c) Only users who are actually accessing the app need a license. You can share the app with users who do not have a license, but they will not be able to use your app without having an appropriate license assigned.