Can we purchase only 2 or 3 SharePoint Advanced Management licenses to our organization?

Question

Without purchasing SAM licenses for all the users in the organization, we need to know whether we can purchase only 2 or 3? Because we hope to purchase the feature for the SharePoint admins first.

If so, what would be the cost? Please elaborate on this. Thank you.

Best Regards

Kishani

Answer 1

Dear Kishani Gunewardane,

Good day! Thank you for posting in our community. Your question is "Can we purchase only 2 or 3 SharePoint Advanced Management licenses to our organization?".

You can purchase only two or three SharePoint advanced management licenses to your organization. SharePoint Advanced Management is a per-user license. Please be noted only the users who are assigned the license will be able to use the features included in this license.

The cost is $3 per user per month.

For more information please refer to this article.

Microsoft SharePoint Premium - SharePoint Advanced Management overview - SharePoint in Microsoft 365 | Microsoft Learn

Thank you for your cooperation and have a nice day!

Best Regards,

Answer 2

Hi Sophiya

We also trying to purchase fewer licenses based on your comments below it can be done, in this case, if we need to buy this for only 3 users from 100 user tenant then we need to pay 3x3= 9$ for those three to get activated is that right?

But Microsft in your attached article says

so what is the difference do we need to pay 100 x 3 = 300$ permonth

Bit confusing

Best Regards

Radika

Answer 3

Thank you very much for the explanation.

Best Regards

Kishani

Answer 4

Dear Kishani Gunewardane,

Here are answer to your questions.

In here you have mentioned that users must be licensed for K, P1 or P2. Could you please explain this little bit more?

That P1 or P2 refers "SharePoint Plan 1" or "SharePoint Plan 2", which means user need to have SharePoint license and be able to use SharePoint service. To have verification on your current license, you can check from Microsoft 365 admin center >> Active users >> find the related user >> License >> Expand "Apps " and check if it contains "SharePoint plan" related service.

Also can you please explain more on SharePoint Advanced Management Plan 1 add-on in Microsoft 365 admin center?

In M365 admin center https://admin.microsoft.com/, please go to "Market Place" page and search for "sharepoint advanced". You can find it under "Add-ons" area, see below picture.

Thank you for your cooperation and have a nice day!

Best Regards,

Answer 5

Hi Sophia,

Good day!

Thank you very much for replying.

In here you have mentioned that users must be licensed for K, P1 or P2. Could you please explain this little bit more?

Also can you please explain more on SharePoint Advanced Management Plan 1 add-on in Microsoft 365 admin center?

Best Regards

Kishani