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Ian Moran's avatar
Ian Moran
Iron Contributor
Dec 08, 2016

Assign selective license in Office 365 using Powershell - "Unable to assign this license ..."

I'm attempting to assign Yammer licenses to all users in the tenant who don't have this assigned. All users have location set and have at least an Exchange license from the STANDARDWOFFPACK_FACULTY S...
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Ian Moran's avatar
Ian Moran
Iron Contributor
Dec 09, 2016

Got it working. This enables all licenses in the SKU while leaving previously assigned licenses untouched.

 

PS C:\Users\Ian> $MyLicenseOptions = New-MsolLicenseOptions -AccountSkuId "mytenant:STANDARDWOFFPACK_FACULTY" -DisabledPlans $null

 

PS C:\Users\Ian> PS C:\Users\Ian> Set-MsolUserLicense -UserPrincipalName "user@domain.com" -LicenseOptions $MyLicenseOptions

Eduardo Luis de Oliveira da Silva's avatar
Eduardo Luis de Oliveira da Silva
Copper Contributor
Oct 02, 2017

Perfect,

This script helped me a lot, in assigning pending plans to users already licensed.

Thank you

  • Deleted's avatar
    Deleted
    Oct 23, 2017

    Hi,

     

    let's assume I want to only change the ProvisioningStatus of one ServicePlan and a

    user has the following ServicePlans set ((Get-MsolUser -UserPrincipalName $user).Licenses.ServiceStatus)):

     

    ServicePlan ProvisioningStatus
    ----------- ------------------

    YAMMER_ENTERPRISE Success
    OFFICESUBSCRIPTION Disabled
    SHAREPOINTENTERPRISE Success

    I want to set YAMMER_ENTERPRISE to "Disabled"

    So I tried:

     

    $licenseOptions = New-MsolLicenseOptions -AccountSkuId "companyname:ENTERPRISEPACK"
    -DisabledPlans "YAMMER_ENTERPRISE"

     

    Set-MsolUserLicense -UserPrincipalName $user -LicenseOptions $licenseOptions

     

    What this does is set YAMMER_ENTERPRISE to "disabled", as expected. However, OFFICESUBSCRIPTION will now be enabled. I know this is because any ServicePlan not specified for -DisabledPlans will be enabled.

     

    Is there an option to have every ServicePlan remain unchanged but desired one (here YAMMER_ENTERPRISE)?

     

    I'm asking because if I wanted to automate this for a whole tenant it'd be devastating if all ServicePlans not specified for -DisabledPlans got enabled beacuse many times different users have different combinations of ServicePlans enabled/disabled and the should remain unchanged.

     

    Thanks for your help in advance.

    • VasilMichev's avatar
      VasilMichev
      MVP
      Oct 23, 2017

      The cmdlets overwrite the service settings, they do not add/remove services. So when you setup the $licenseoptions variable, set both Yammer and Office to disabled. This script shows how you can do this in bulk for all users, respecting their enabled/disabled services.

      • Deleted's avatar
        Deleted
        Oct 24, 2017

        Thanks. So do you agree that there's no convenient way to selectively enable/disable certain services so that we can treat users that have different combinations of services in bulk?

         

        I imagine if one were to do some more elaborate scripting it might be possible. Unfortunately, this is out of my ability.

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