Office 365 License Option PowerShell

Hello,

Office 365 Licensing is divided in SKU, each SKU has Service Plan. They differ for each SKU. You can add an SKU to a user, without allowing access to all service plan, you can choose one by one the ones you want to enable for a given user.

We will see how to work with licensing in Office 365 with both the old PowerShell module, and the new one.

Office 365 SKU

You can get a list of the available SKU on your Office 365 tenant with :

Msol

Get-MsolAccountSku

AzureAD

Get-AzureADSubscribedSku

Available Service Plan

Inside each SKU, there is some Service Plan :

MSOL

Get-MsolAccountSku | Select-Object -ExpandProperty ServiceStatus

AzureAD

Get-AzureADSubscribedSku | Select-Object -ExpandProperty ServicePlans

Check Service Plan on user

Now, let’s check on a user with a license and disable plan :

MSOL

Get-MsolUser -UserPrincipalName dumbo@itfordummies.net | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Licenses | Select-Object -ExpandProperty ServiceStatus

AzureAD

Get-AzureADUser -SearchString dumbo | Select-Object -ExpandProperty AssignedPlans

Service Plans

MSOL

You can set license option by creating a MsolLicenseOptions with the required disabled plans, and then use it to set the license.

$Options = New-MsolLicenseOptions -AccountSkuId itfordummies:enterprisepack -DisabledPlans YAMMER_ENTERPRISE,RMS_S_ENTERPRISE
Set-MsolUserLicense -UserPrincipalName dumbo@itfordummies.net -LicenseOptions $options
Get-MsolUser -UserPrincipalName dumbo@itfordummies.net | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Licenses | Select-Object -ExpandProperty ServiceStatus

AzureAD

In this version (2.0.0.33), licenses plan assignment does not seem to be implemented, but you can set licenses with full plan assignment:

$AssignedLicense = New-Object -TypeName Microsoft.Open.AzureAD.Model.AssignedLicense
$AssignedLicense.SkuId = '6fd2c87f-b296-42f0-b197-1e91e994b900'


$AssignedLicenses = New-Object -TypeName Microsoft.Open.AzureAD.Model.AssignedLicenses
$AssignedLicenses.AddLicenses = $AssignedLicense

Set-AzureADUserLicense -ObjectId dumbo@itfordummies.net -AssignedLicenses $AssignedLicenses

Office 365 License Option PowerShell

So, there is two ways of managing AzureAD, as of today, one of the two is under active development.

If you need to disable some service plan to allow your company to embrace cloud change on its own speed, you need (for now) to use the MSOnline PowerShell module