Hi everyone,
We have customers with needs to have Users down in Dataverse without the requirement for that User to have any roles assigned or have access to the application in any way. We needed the users down in Dataverse to link them in records etc. Example, set them as a Business Stakeholder in a specific entity that might be setup.
In the past we have always been able to add users to a Dataverse environment in a couple of different ways.
- Assign them to a security group in Azure AD and then assign that security group to the environment. This would synchronize the user down to Dataverse even if the user did not have a specific license.
- Another option would be to manually add them to the environment through the Users in the admin.powerplatform.com.
It looks like Microsoft is now restricting the ability to manually add users to the Environment (option 2 above) if they do not have a license and I am concerned they will start doing this with option 1 above as well.
Does anyone know more about this change? Is this functionality being changed with a focus on using the new AAD User table instead?
I don't think the User table populated with the AAD user (synchronization) breaks any licensing rules if the user doesn't have any roles or access to the application so trying to figure out why this is being restricted.
I do see the following post from March where it identifies a license required to add user manually to the environment: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/create-users#requirements-for-successfully-adding-users-in-dataverse
Does anyone know if this has changed recently? This is different than what I have seen in the past.
