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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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VasilMichev's avatar
VasilMichev
MVP
Dec 09, 2016

If the user already has the same SKU assigned, you should not use the AddLicenses parameter, only the LicenseOptions one.

  • 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

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        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.

  • Ian Moran's avatar
    Ian Moran
    Iron Contributor
    Dec 09, 2016

    Thanks Vasil, tried that by removing that parameter and it actually removed all licenses from the user

     

    Set-MsolUserLicense -UserPrincipalName "user@domain.com" "tenantID:STANDARDWOFFPACK_FACULTY" -LicenseOptions $MyLicenseOptions

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