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Finding who a license is allocated to...
Go under Billing > Licenses in Admin Center, and click the link in there, it'll show you who is assigned those licenses there.
Thanks for the reply, Chris. Whilst that does indeed show a list of who has one of these licenses it doesn't actually say which one this license renewal applies to. The link is broken in the reporting of license usage and allocation. How is anybody supposed to be able to identify who a renewal is for, when a renewal notice arrives? Strikes me the Admin Center has a fairly fundamental reporting flaw in its design. Even if Microsoft were to add something so simple as an expiry date against each user we'd have a significantly better chance of tying the renewals to the user they are for. As I have said, ideally, this should actually give us a license GUID to make the link absolute. I know the data is in there, it has to be. All we need is for Microsoft to work it out and give it to us. This is a classic example of them fixing it once for the benefit of tens of thousands of admins/partners.
- Yeah it was even worse than it is now a year or so ago. You can at least now pull up all your subscriptions on sub tab and find the expired ones there. But as far as the one it's assigned too it's random, that specific expired license doesn't apply to a specific user. Basically once your count goes below the number you have it basically picks a random person to remove license from.
Random! That makes me nervous. I know there are no doubt hundreds of millions of users worldwide but with all the smart people and resources at Microsoft's disposal I don't get it how they could design this so poorly. It is perfectly reasonable for someone to ask, who is this renewal for and completely unreasonable for Microsoft to prevent us from answering this. Each license has a guid, surely and at time of allocating a license to a user a link is established. So, as I said, the data has to be there as well as the association. I can't believe it is random.
