What happens if you exceed your license limit when using Active Directory?

Helen Griffiths {Capgemini}

Hello Community

What happens to the Atlassian applications when the license limit is exceeded when using Active Directory for authentication? I've read a few articles and experienced this once in Jira when exceeding Jira Service Desk Agent licenses, but we use Crowd for User Mgmt.

How do the applications know how many users have been added into a Group?

In older versions, Confluence went to Read Only and Jira does not allow you to create new issues. Is this the same?

Hope this makes sense.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

The "go into a sort of read-only mode" is the same, yes.  No data loss, no locking out, just "can't write issue/page data"

The applications synchronise an internal copy of the user and groups lists when they synchronise from any remote user directory.  So they "know" what users are in a group because they've asked.