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Copper Contributor

Jan 12, 2018

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Giving user access rights in the Office 365 Admin centre

Hi there, Is it possible to allow a O365 user, access to the Office 365 admin centre in order to only view the licence allocation for our tenant. i.e. they can see how many Office E5 or E3 licen...

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Cian Allner
Jan 12, 2018
How about Service administrator? I just tried that role on a test account and it gave read-only access to user details including licencing plus Licences node under Billing.

https://support.office.com/en-ie/article/about-office-365-admin-roles-da585eea-f576-4f55-a1e0-87090b6aaa9d

Cian Allner

Silver Contributor

Jan 12, 2018

How about Service administrator? I just tried that role on a test account and it gave read-only access to user details including licencing plus Licences node under Billing.

https://support.office.com/en-ie/article/about-office-365-admin-roles-da585eea-f576-4f55-a1e0-87090b6aaa9d

Curtis Johnstone
MVP
Jan 14, 2018
Service Administrator is probably the best choice for read-only access to license information in the portal.

However, know that a Service Administrator can also do the following in the Portal:

Can view all Groups and group information

Can view Users and user information

Create and view Service Requests

Can view tenant Service Health Advisories

Can view tenant messages in the Message Center

Also, with Service Administrator I am able to connect with the MSOnline (Azure AD V1) PowerShell module and use many cmdlet's which retrieve information (the "Get" cmdlet's), including tenant configuration (Get-MsolCompanyInformation) and enumerator tenant Administrators (Get-MsolRole and Get-MsolRoleMember).

Curtis