As an Office 365 IT professional, you may need to allocate license to users. There are several ways for doing that. Here, I will show you two ways to achieve your goal.
- Option 1 : Allocate licenses in bulk to your Office 365 users using PowerShell
- Option 2 : Allocate licenses in bulk to your Office 365 users using Azure Active Directory group membership
Option 1 : Allocate licenses in bulk to your Office 365 users using PowerShell
Below is the script I’m sharing with you.
Function Set-o365UsersLicense{
[CmdletBinding()]
Param(
[Parameter(mandatory=$true)]$upnPath, #Path to the .csv file containing users UserPrincipalName
[Parameter(mandatory=$false)]$LicensePlan = "E1", #Office 365 License Plan to be allocated to users
[Parameter(mandatory=$false)]$DisabledOptions = "YAMMER_ENTERPRISE", #Disabled Feature
[Parameter(mandatory=$true)]$LogPath = "c:\" #Logs path
)
$Error.Clear()
$LicenseToAdd = $Null
$DisableYammer = $False
$LicenseOptions = @()
#Finding License Plan to activate
Switch($LicensePlan){
"E1" {
Write-host "You chosed Plan E1" -ForegroundColor Green
$LicenseToAdd = "kingo:STANDARDPACK"
$LicenseToRemove = "kingo:ENTERPRISEPACK","kingo:WACONEDRIVESTANDARD"
}
"E3" {
Write-host "You chosed Plan E3" -ForegroundColor Green
$LicenseToAdd = "kingo:ENTERPRISEPACK"
$LicenseToRemove = "kingo:STANDARDPACK","kingo:WACONEDRIVESTANDARD"
}
"OD" {
Write-host "You chosed To assign OneDrive" -ForegroundColor Green
$LicenseToAdd = "kingo:WACONEDRIVESTANDARD"
$LicenseToRemove = "kingo:STANDARDPACK","kingo:ENTERPRISEPACK"
}
Default {
Write-Host "$LicensePlan is not a valid License Plan parameter !" -ForegroundColor Red
}
}
#Importing users to be assigned License
$upns = Import-Csv $upnPath
#Checking Licenses availability
$MsolAccountSku = Get-MsolAccountSku | ? {$_.AccountSkuId -ilike $LicenseToAdd}
$AvailableLics = $MsolAccountSku.ActiveUnits - $MsolAccountSku.ConsumedUnits
#Assigning License to user
If($AvailableLics -ge $upns.Count){
#Creating not existing upns log file
"Not existing upn List" > $($LogPath + "Upns_Not_Exist.log.log")
#Defining License options to disable
if($DisabledOptions -in $MsolAccountSku.ServiceStatus.ServicePlan.ServiceName){
$LicenseOptions = New-MsolLicenseOptions -AccountSkuId $LicenseToAdd -DisabledPlans $DisabledOptions
}
#Enabling users Licenses
$upns | % {
#Checking if user exists before processing with licensing
$_.UserPrincipalName
If($User = Get-MsolUser -UserPrincipalName $_.UserPrincipalName -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue){
#Getting current user Licenses
$CurrentUserLicenses = $User.Licenses.AccountSkuId
#Removing unecessary Licenses
$LicenseToRemove | %{
if($CurrentUserLicenses -contains $_){
Set-MsolUserLicense -UserPrincipalName $User.UserPrincipalName -RemoveLicenses $_
}
}
#Assigning New License to user if not already enabled
If($CurrentUserLicenses -notcontains $LicenseToAdd){
#Disable YAMMER if License to add is plan E1, E3
If($LicenseOptions){
Set-MsolUserLicense -UserPrincipalName $User.UserPrincipalName -AddLicenses $LicenseToAdd -LicenseOptions $LicenseOptions -EA SilentlyContinue
}
Else{
Set-MsolUserLicense -UserPrincipalName $User.UserPrincipalName -AddLicenses $LicenseToAdd
}
}
}
Else{
#Logging inexisting user account
$User.UserPrincipalName >> $($LogPath + "Upns_Not_Exist.log")
}
}
}
Else{
Write-Host "There are $AvailableLics $LicensePlan Licenses available" -ForegroundColor Red
Write-Host "Please reduce users list to match available Licenses or Increase available Licenses" -ForegroundColor Red
}
#Exporting errors log
$Error > $($LogPath + "Set_AzureUserLicense_Error.log")
Write-Host "Script Logs Location : $LogPath " -ForegroundColor Yellow
}
A little description about the script parameters is necessary :
$upnPath : is the full path of the .csv file containing users upns
$LicensePlan : specify the license plan you want to configure
- E1 : Office 365 Enterprise E1
- E3 : Office 365 Enterprise E3
- E5 : Office 365 Enterprise E5
- OD : OneDrive Entreprise (Plan 1)
$DisabledOptions : specify the license feature you want to disable. “YAMMER_ENTERPRISE” : designate Yammer as the feature to disable
$LogPath = designate the directory path where to save log files
“kingo” : refer to the name of my Office 365 tenant : kingo.onmicrosoft.com
The upns (UserPrincipalName) csv file must be formated like below :
UserPrincipalName
user1@domain.com
user2@domain.com
user2@domain.com
user2@domain.com
Prerequisites for running the script :
- You will need Office 365 Module For PowerShell
- Connect to your Office 365 tenant using the command : Connect-MsolService
How to run the script ?
Set-o365UsersLicense -upnPath c:\upns.csv -LogPath "d:\"
Users will be allocated License E1 with YAMMER disabled, and the log file saved in d:\ path.
If the default parameters does not suit you, you can run a complete command by specifying full parameters like below :
Set-o365UsersLicense -upnPath "c:\upns.csv" -LicensePlan E3 -DisabledOptions "YAMMER_ENTERPRISE" -LogPath "d:\"
To check that users are well assigned licenses, use my previous post Show-LicensesMatrix.
Et voilà… 🙂
Option 2 : Allocate licenses in bulk to your Office 365 users using Azure Active Directory group membership (coming soon…)
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