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Announcing the public preview of Azure AD group-based license management for Office 365 (and more)!
Great stuff about license management for Office 365 through Azure AD: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/enterprisemobility/2017/02/22/announcing-the-public-preview-of-azure-ad-group-based-license-m...
My view of using AAD Groups to manage Office 365 licenses: good enough for small to medium organizations but maybe not for large enterprises https://www.petri.com/office-365-license-management-azuread-groups
In fact large organizations will not be able to implement Azure AD group based license management right now due to 2 restrictions coming together:
- Group-based licensing currently does not support “nested groups” (groups that contain other groups). If you apply a license to a nested group, only the immediate first-level user members of the group will have the licenses applied.
- The number of members in a group you can synchronize from your on-premises Active Directory to Azure Active Directory using Azure AD Connect is limited to 50K members.
I hope Microsoft will support nested groups when Azure AD group based license management becomes GA.