Microsoft 365 Licensing Requirement Lookup Fast answers for working admins
Conditional Access
Answer: Microsoft Entra ID P1 is the common baseline; risk-based policies require P2 capabilities.
Administrator playbook

Decide, verify, and document

Use the curated answer as a starting point, then prove the outcome against the target tenant or device.

1

What it means

  • P1 supports standard Conditional Access
  • P2 adds Identity Protection risk signals
2

What to check next

  1. Verify every benefiting user is appropriately licensed
  2. Confirm the exact policy features used
3

Verify success

  1. Confirm the SKU is assigned to every benefiting user or covered device.
  2. Confirm the required service plan is enabled, not merely present in the tenant.
  3. Re-test the exact feature after license propagation and record the result.
4

Escalate when

  • Microsoft documentation and the tenant SKU/service-plan view disagree.
  • The feature remains unavailable after assignment and normal propagation.
  • A purchase or renewal decision depends on contract-specific product terms.
Copyable admin briefAnswer, next checks, source, and review date
List subscribed SKUs
Get-MgSubscribedSku | Select-Object SkuPartNumber,ConsumedUnits,PrepaidUnits

Read-only. Confirms tenant inventory; it does not prove that a service plan is enabled for a specific user.

Evidence to preserve

  • Exact feature and workload
  • Users or devices benefiting from it
  • Assigned SKU and enabled service plans
  • Tenant region and purchase channel