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Office 365 Group Licensing reprocess time?
I can't find any documentation on how often the reprocess occurs of a group used for Office 365 licensing. When I add a user to a group on prem, force Azure AD Connect sync, I see the user is in the...
When a user inherits a license from a group, you can't directly remove or modify that license assignment in the user's properties. Changes must be made in the group and then propagated to all users.
It is possible, however, to assign the same product license directly to the user, in addition to the inherited license. You can enable additional services from the product just for one user, without affecting other users.
Directly assigned licenses can be removed, and don’t affect inherited licenses. Consider the user who inherits an Office 365 Enterprise E3 license from a group.
Initially, the user inherits the license only from the E3 basic services group, which enables four service plans.
Select Assign to directly assign an E3 license to the user. In this case, you are going to disable all service plans except Yammer Enterprise.
As a result, the user still uses only one license of the E3 product. But the direct assignment enables the Yammer Enterprise service for that user only. You can see which services are enabled by the group membership versus the direct assignment.
When you use direct assignment, the following operations are allowed:
Yammer Enterprise can be turned off on the user resource directly. The On/Off toggle in the illustration was enabled for this service, as opposed to the other service toggles. Because the service is enabled directly on the user, it can be modified.
Additional services can be enabled as well, as part of the directly assigned license.
The Remove button can be used to remove the direct license from the user. You can see that the user now only has the inherited group license and only the original services remain enabled:
It is possible, however, to assign the same product license directly to the user, in addition to the inherited license. You can enable additional services from the product just for one user, without affecting other users.
Directly assigned licenses can be removed, and don’t affect inherited licenses. Consider the user who inherits an Office 365 Enterprise E3 license from a group.
Initially, the user inherits the license only from the E3 basic services group, which enables four service plans.
Select Assign to directly assign an E3 license to the user. In this case, you are going to disable all service plans except Yammer Enterprise.
As a result, the user still uses only one license of the E3 product. But the direct assignment enables the Yammer Enterprise service for that user only. You can see which services are enabled by the group membership versus the direct assignment.
When you use direct assignment, the following operations are allowed:
Yammer Enterprise can be turned off on the user resource directly. The On/Off toggle in the illustration was enabled for this service, as opposed to the other service toggles. Because the service is enabled directly on the user, it can be modified.
Additional services can be enabled as well, as part of the directly assigned license.
The Remove button can be used to remove the direct license from the user. You can see that the user now only has the inherited group license and only the original services remain enabled:
