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To transition from direct to groups-based licensing, all we need to do is remove the direct license assignment. Notice also that most users have the fully 13/13 services included in an E3 license showing as enabled. The names of the groups that licenses are being inherited from, such as Licensing_Office365_E3_Base, are also displayed. Notice how most of the users have both direct and inherited assignment paths. Transitioning from Direct to Groups-Based License ManagementĪ few minutes after setting up my group license assignments the Azure portal showed my users’ license status as below. For Teams, I created a license assignment that only enables Teams, which will allow me to fully demonstrate the cumulative nature of groups-based license management. A strange issue that might impact partner or delegated permissions scenarios, but nonetheless I was able to proceed with the correct account.Īfter completing the steps above I went back through the same steps to create a license assignment for Teams only, and another for EMS E3. Logging on to the Azure portal with the Office 365 tenant admin account allowed me to continue without errors. It appears that the problem was that I was using a Microsoft Account associated with my Azure subscription, and even though the account has access to the Office 365 tenant’s Azure AD (and is a Global Admin) it is not able to be used for administering groups-based license management. On my first run through this feature I was getting a notification that “Licenses could not be assigned or removed due to an error”, which I was unable to work out a solution for. If there’s any errors at this stage you’ll receive a notification in your Azure portal. I’ve turned off StaffHub, Teams, Sway, and Yammer for this demonstration.Ĭlick OK when you’re happy with your selections, and then click Assign to create the license assignment.
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In the Assignment options you can select the sub-features for the license that you’ve chosen to assign to the group. Either approach will work, it really just depends on how your organization views license management. You can select multiple groups at this stage, for example if you were using department-based groups to assign product licenses to users. From the Users and Groups selection, choose the group that you want to assign licenses to, and then click on Select. Select a product license and click on the Assign button. Assigning Licenses to GroupsĪfter navigating to the Licenses section of Azure Active Directory in the Azure portal, you can view the list of products that your organization currently has licenses for. My tenant currently has licenses assigned to users, so I will need to transition users from direct license assignment to groups-based licensing without disrupting their existing services (e.g.
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The groups I have created will allow me to demonstrate basic license assignment, as well as a more granular approach, and how license assignment is cumulative for users who are members of multiple groups.
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For this demonstration I’m using groups synchronized from on-premises Active Directory with static membership. based on user attributes such as ExtensionAttribute1). to the members of a group) or dynamic (e.g. The license assignments can be static (i.e. The groups that you can assign licenses to can be created in Azure AD, or synchronized from on-premises Active Directory.
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Choose Azure Active Directory from the list of services in the portal, and then select Licenses. Microsoft has made group-based license management available through the Azure portal. Getting Started with Azure AD Group-Based License Management