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Thanks for the response.<br />
Looks like the only option provided by MS support was to set as the global admin. Not particularly ideal but it has worked in the mean time...
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Thanks for the response.
Looks like the only option provided by MS support was to set as the global admin. Not particularly ideal but it has worked in the mean time...

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We have an organization that has a subscription for Office365 that is hiring a 3rd party Sharepoint developer to assist with design, access and various things. <br />
Does anyone know if its possible to grant this 3rd party developer admin access to the online portal? and if so, how is this done?<br />
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An Extranet and Intranet Sharepoint site will be developed and for the extranet site, we look to have consultants that are indirectly working for the organization be accessing and contributing to the site. Are licenses required and would each license be tied to that user that is accessing it? or possible to buy a pool of licenses that can be used for anyone to allow for concurrent access?
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We have an organization that has a subscription for Office365 that is hiring a 3rd party Sharepoint developer to assist with design, access and various things. 
Does anyone know if its possible to grant this 3rd party developer admin access to the online portal? and if so, how is this done?

An Extranet and Intranet Sharepoint site will be developed and for the extranet site, we look to have consultants that are indirectly working for the organization be accessing and contributing to the site. Are licenses required and would each license be tied to that user that is accessing it? or possible to buy a pool of licenses that can be used for anyone to allow for concurrent access?

sharepoint online (Office365) 3rd party consultant access

Microsoft Sharepoint is a software platform and family of software products used for collaboration and web publishing combined. These capabilities include developing web sites, portals, intranets, content management systems, search engines, wikis, blogs, and other tools for business intelligence and collaboration. SharePoint has a Microsoft Office-like interface, and it is closely integrated with the Office suite.

Microsoft SharePoint

Office 365 is a group of software plus services subscriptions that provides productivity software and related services to its subscribers. Office 365 allows the use of Microsoft Office apps on Windows and OS X, provides storage space on Microsoft's cloud storage service OneDrive, and grants 60 Skype minutes per month. Office 365 includes e-mail and social networking services through hosted versions of Exchange Server, Skype for Business Server, SharePoint and Office Online, integration with Yammer, as well as access to the Office software. All of Office 365's components can be managed and configured through an online portal; users can be added manually, imported from a CSV file, or Office 365 can be set up for single sign-on with a local Active Directory using Active Directory Federation Services.