{"id":6394,"date":"2018-04-24T14:09:02","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T14:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vyapin.com\/blog\/?p=6394"},"modified":"2021-05-11T08:22:41","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T08:22:41","slug":"managing-office-365-licenses-using-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vyapinsoftware.com\/blog\/managing-office-365-licenses-using-groups","title":{"rendered":"How To Manage Office 365 Licenses Using Groups?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The biggest challenge for any Office 365 Administrators, is managing Office 365 licenses purchased by their Organization effectively. So far the Office 365 admin center doesn\u2019t provide much options to automate Office 365 license assignment effectively. For smaller tenants, manual process provided by Office 365 admin center should suffice. For larger Organizations, automating license assignments is necessary, since the manual process is tiresome and error prone. Hence, the administrators has to spend significant amount of time, to prepare complex PowerShell scripts to achieve the level of automation, they require.<\/p>\n

Considering the feedback provided by their customers in automating license assignment, Microsoft has introduced a new group based Office 365 license management system through Azure Portal which is currently in Preview. This group based assignment system, can be used for both groups created in Azure AD and also groups synced from On-Premises Active Directory.<\/p>\n

License Assignment to Groups:<\/h2>\n

Once you open your Azure Portal<\/a>, navigate to \u201cLicenses\u201d section present in Azure Active Directory. The list of products, currently available for Organization, will be displayed in the Licenses page.<\/p>\n

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Select the product license, which you want to assign to groups and click on \u201cAssign\u201d button. Once you click on Assign button, User Selection page will appear. In the \u201cUsers and Groups\u201d field, you can select the list of groups, you want to assign the selected products.<\/p>\n

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Once the User selection is complete, \u201cAssignment Options\u201d will display, the list of services available for the selected product. You can disable some of the features, if you don\u2019t want to assign them to a group.<\/p>\n

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Click \u201cOK\u201d, when you are done with your selection. Then, when you click on \u201cAssign\u201d, the selected product will be assigned to all the users in the selected group. You will receive a notification in Azure Portal, if the license assignment is complete or if any there is any issue in the license assignment.<\/p>\n

Once the license assignment is complete, when you look at the \u201cLicenses\u201d page in Azure Portal, the list of licenses which are inherited to groups will be shown.<\/p>\n

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To complete the Groups based license assignment process, you have to remove all the direct licenses assigned for the user. For example, when you open the licenses page of a user, the list of products assigned for the user will be displayed.<\/p>\n

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You can remove the licenses which are assigned directly for a user, to enable group based licensing. You should be more cautious, when removing direct licenses for the selected users, since the user\u2019s access to services should not be disrupted when removing these licenses.<\/p>\n

Points to be considered:<\/h3>\n